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  • Bodies pulled from wells after Nigeria clashes

    01/24/2010 7:04:48 AM PST · by myknowledge · 11 replies · 512+ views
    Reuters ^ | January 23, 2010 | Shuaibu Mohammed
    JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) - Mosque and government officials have pulled more bodies from wells and sewage pits in a village near the Nigerian city of Jos, victims of what Human Rights Watch said appeared to have been a targeted massacre. Four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes killed hundreds of people in Jos and surrounding communities this week before Vice President Goodluck Jonathan deployed the military to contain the violence. Muhammad Tanko Shittu, a senior mosque official organizing mass burials in Jos, told Reuters on Saturday he had just returned from Kuru...