July 17, 2010
Authorities in central Nigeria say about eight people, including the family of a priest, have been killed in fresh clashes.Residents say men armed with machetes attacked a Christian village near Jos.
Eyewitnesses said the attackers set fire to more than half a dozen houses, as well as a church, in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The army says it has deployed troops to the area and brought the situation under control.
However they have not reintroduced a curfew which was imposed when simmering sectarian tensions exploded in March, leaving several hundred dead.
Jos lies on a faultline between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
At the heart of the clashes lie deep-rooted resentments between indigenous groups and settlers over land and positions of power.
- BBC
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