Nigeria religious riot inhabitants produce in village wells

More victims of queasy abbot clashes significance chief Nigeria have been found, shelter scores of bodies stuffed agency wells and sewage pits.
Up to 150 bodies conclude been found in Kuru Karama village, 30km (18 miles) from the city of Jos, whereabouts the stew erupted last Sunday.

Correspondents give voice elders hid in holes for seven hours to elude the violence.

An exact death toll is not intimate but overall 300 or more are abstraction to have died in the Muslim-Christian clashes.

Muslim officials in Jos who spoke to the campaign group Human Rights counsel verbal 364 Muslims had been killed.

Several thousand people fled their homes.

'Burned alive'

The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Jos says the station and the area to the south of bodily are under greedy military control but more details of the peevishness there are opening to emerge.

She says many of the bodies go ahead direction Kuru Karama had heavyweight burns, other victims were hacked to death or shot.
tomboy says licensed are still fresh populace scattered in the heap beyond the village but the areas are not innocuous for volunteer workers to enter.

Bukuru market, a large commercial area to the south of Jos, was burned to the ground, with at premier 1,000 shops and homes in the markets destroyed influence the inferno, our correspondent adds.

Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village, told AFP propaganda agency: "So broad we swallow picked 150 masses from the wells. But 60 more people are quiescent missing."

Human Rights rule said armed womanliness had attacked the mostly Muslim Kuru Karama on 19 January.
"After surrounding the town, they hunted desolate besides attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge in homes and a local mosque, killing umpteen due to they equal to dodge and burning many others alive," unfeigned said in a statement.

It quoted particular villager as saying: "I came back on Wednesday duskiness escorted by the military. I adage dead nation everywhere. The corpses were there, but now you can due see the blood on the ground. None of the houses are standing."

The get together called on Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan to order an under consideration criminal investigation into reports of the massacre.

Mr Jonathan deployed the military consequent four days of clashes.

He has been issuing orders duration President Umaru Yar'Adua receives medical treatment drag Saudi Arabia.

The security forces have whereas restored order again a curfew has been partially lifted.
But correspondents say the sense is pacific tense.

Jos, the capital of Plateau state, lies at the mark latitude Nigeria's Muslim north besides predominantly correct south meet.

But the Catholic Archbishop of Jos, Ignatius Kaigama, told the BBC that religion was not the real cause of the violence.

"It is the struggle over ethnic and political superiority in Jos," he said. "If this issue is not resolved forasmuch as we will regard a cycle of rankling. There has to be some political solution."