Hundreds More Die in Nigerian Violence
ABA, Nigeria — Amid reports of new clashes that left hundreds dead, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday decried the religious violence that has racked his country, mourning that Nigerians have lost their “sense of moral outrage.”
Police estimated that 200 to 400 people have died in three days of revenge attacks for clashes last week between Christians and Muslims in the northern city of Kaduna that killed more than 300.
The unrest was sparked by arguments over Sharia, or Islamic law, which has been imposed in two northern states and had been planned in two more in the largely Muslim north.
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