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.
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/ 22 January 2010
Volunteers recovered scores more bodies in Nigeria’s troubled central Plateau state as the death toll from inter-religious clashes rose.
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/ 21 January 2010
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon is alarmed by the bloody inter-communal clashes in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
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/ 20 January 2010
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.
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/ 19 January 2010
Authorities slapped a 24-hour curfew on the Nigerian flashpoint city of Jos on Tuesday after deadly clashes between Christians and Muslims.