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At Least 100 Dead In Central Nigeria Violence

   VOA News 07 March 2010
   A  Nigerian  soldier  runs  past  a  burnt  out truck at Jos, Nigeria,
   Wednesday, (file: Jan. 20, 2010)

Photo: AP

   A  Nigerian  soldier  runs  past  a  burnt  out truck at Jos, Nigeria,
   Wednesday, (file: Jan. 20, 2010)

   Witnesses  say  at  least 100 people have been killed in fighting near
   the volatile Nigerian city of Jos.
   Residents  of  Dogo  Nahawa,  a village south of Jos, say unidentified
   attackers raided the village before dawn Sunday.  They say the raiders
   fired  shots  to  draw  people out of their homes, then assaulted them
   with machetes and knives.
   Reporters on the scene say they have counted at least 100 bodies piled
   up  in  the  open  air.   They say most of those killed were women and
   children.
   The  motive  for  the  attack  remains  unclear,  though  some reports
   describe the incident as an act of religious violence.
   Jos  has  experienced  four  major bursts of Muslim-Christian fighting
   over  the  past  decade, mostly recently in January, when at least 325
   people were killed.
   In  the  January  incident,  troops were deployed to calm the city and
   enforce a 24-hour curfew.
   Previous  clashes  in  Jos killed at 200 people in 2008, 700 people in
   2004 and 1,000 people in 2001.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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