Villagers stood at a mass grave in Dogon Na Hauwa, Nigeria, on Monday.Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters
Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.
One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed hands and feet.
Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by Muslim gangs near Jos, the city that bestrides Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim fault line.
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Christians flee after Nigeria’s massacre — Africasia
Toll From Religious and Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Rises to 500 — New York Times
Nigerian death toll hits 528 — The Province
Massacres Shake Uneasy Nigeria — Wall Street Journal
Sectarian Violence Leaves Hundreds Dead in Nigeria — Voice of America
Nigerian massacre victims buried in mass grave — L.A. Times
‘Survivors are busy burying their dead’ — National Post
Land disputes, politics at root of Nigeria violence: experts — Africasia
In pictures: Mourning in Nigeria — BBC
Who’s protecting the people of Jos? — Cameron Duodu, The Guardian
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