The World - News from April 30, 1985
The death toll in northern Nigeria’s most recent episode of religious violence rose to more than 100, the West African country’s news agency reported. Some suspected members of an extremist Muslim sect reportedly were burned alive. Residents of the town of Gombe helped police round up members of the fanatical Maitatsine sect. Soon thereafter, irate townspeople burned the suspects, according the agency’s correspondent there.
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