Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in the flare-up in violence stoked by tensions between Protestant and Catholic communities.

A Muslim man has been beaten to death in Magaliesburg, allegedly by two people who insulted him because of his beard, says a family friend.

Volunteers recovered scores more bodies in Nigeria’s troubled central Plateau state as the death toll from inter-religious clashes rose.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is alarmed by the bloody inter-communal clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos.

Nigeria has sent more troops to the troubled city of Jos as clashes between Muslims and Christians, which have left about 300 people dead, spread.

Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on the Nigerian flashpoint city of Jos on Tuesday after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims.