From the NY Times:
Ethnic Violence in Nigeria Has Killed 500, Officials Say
By ADAM NOSSITER
DAKAR, Senegal — Officials and human rights groups in Nigeria sharply increased the count of the dead after a weekend of savage ethnic violence, saying Monday that as many as 500 people — many of them women and children — may have been killed near the central city of Jos, long a flashpoint for tensions between Christians and Muslims.
The dead were Christians and members of an ethnic group that has been feuding with the Hausa Fulani, Muslim herders who witnesses and police officials identified as the attackers.
The Beeb just refers to it as "ethnic" violence, and and Voice of America calls it "sectarian", ignoring any suggestion of which sects...
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