Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said.
Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria's Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman said.
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The clashes erupted from a long running rivalry between the Ezza and Ezilo people that periodically flares up into violence.
There was no suggestion it had anything to do with wider security problems in the country stemming from a violent Islamist insurgency that set off a wave of deadly bombs on Christmas Day.
"Up to 60 people died in the violence. It is difficult to give the exact figure because when we visited Ezilo community, which was scene of the incident today, ... villagers were still bringing out corpses," Ebonyi state spokesman Onyekachi Eni told Reuters by telephone. "Fifty corpses were shown to us".
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