Red Cross: Hundreds flee Nigerian city as military moves in to control religious violence
By APSunday, March 7, 2010
Hundreds flee new religious violence in Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria — A Red Cross spokesman says hundreds have fled from the central Nigerian city of Jos after a spate of new religious violence in nearby villages.
Red Cross spokesman Robin Waubo says the military moved into three villages to the south of Jos on Sunday afternoon. Waubo says the aid organization does not know how many people may have died, though he says they fear there have been more deaths in a region that saw more than 300 killed in fighting between Christians and Muslims in January.
A Red Cross official in nearby Bauchi state says more than 600 people have fled into makeshift camps there since Sunday morning.
Sectarian violence in this region of Nigeria has left thousands dead over the past decade.
