Scores Dead in Clashes Between Rival Tribes
Clashes between rival Nigerian tribes of Christians and Muslims have killed more than 100 and wounded 1,000, a Nigerian Red Cross official said.
Details of Tuesday’s fighting over farmland and livestock in the remote communities on the border between the central Plateau and Taraba states have been slow to emerge. Telephone lines are not working.
A newspaper in Plateau state reported that at least 120 had been killed, bringing the death toll from 2 1/2 months of tit-for-tat fighting to at least 350, according to unofficial figures.
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