24 Killed in Fighting in Indonesia
Mobs set fire to buildings at a Christian-run university Monday in Indonesia’s Molucca Islands, where at least 24 people have died in two days of clashes between Christians and Muslims, police and witnesses said.
Police rushed reinforcements to the provincial capital, Ambon, to stem the fighting, the bloodiest outbreak of violence in the Moluccas since a peace deal in 2002 ended two years of sectarian fighting that killed 9,000 people.
Muslim mobs burned several Christian homes in the city, a local Christian leader said. Most of the homes were empty because their inhabitants had fled.
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