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80 killed in Nigerian violence

ABUJA (Nigeria): Fighters of a predominantly Christian tribe attacked a town dominated by a rival Muslim ethnic group, razing homes and mosques and killing at least 80 people, Nigerian police said on Tuesday. The ethnic Tarok assailants, armed with machetes, British colonial-era muskets and homemade guns, attacked the predominantly Hausa town of Yelwa, 350 km east of the capital of Abuja, early on Monday morning, said Raymond Nyama, a police officer who visited the scene. Police counted 80 bodies littering otherwise abandoned streets, Mr. Nyama added. An unknown number of mosques were burned. Nigeria's ThisDay newspaper put the death toll at 100 or more, with three mosques and more than 1,000 homes destroyed. Tens of thousands of residents were fleeing the area on foot.

— AP

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