Ten die in sectarian battles over mosque (Adamawa, Nigeria)

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By John Murray in Abuja

10 June 2004

Christians fought Muslims in an eastern Nigerian city yesterday, burning homes and places of worship in a dispute over the construction of a mosque near a Christian tribal leader's palace, police said.

Ten people have been killed in the fighting in Numan, near Nigeria's eastern border with Cameroon, that erupted on Tuesday and continued yesterday, witnesses said. A senior police officer said he was aware of only four injuries.

Christians of the local Bachama tribe had demanded that the area's minority Muslim population, who speak Hausa, destroy a mosque built this year near the palace of Freddie Soditi Bongo, the tribe's chief. The Bachama said the mosque's minaret was an affront to Christians because it was taller than the Christian leader's palace, but Muslim leaders refused to tear down the mosque until Christians paid for a new one elsewhere.

Joseph Myaturti, a resident of Numan who fled the town yesterday, said he saw four bodies in the Muslim quarter of Numan. Mr Myaturti, a Christian, said the violence started on Tuesday when a gang of Christians ordered down two Muslim builders working on the minaret. A worker who refused was dragged to the chief's compound and flogged with chains, said Mr Myaturti, who claimed he witnessed the event.

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Other reporting: Tension in Yola, Many Feared Killed in Numan

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1. 50 killed in Nigeria 'holy war'

Kano - At least 50 people have been killed and three mosques burned down in fresh violence between Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria.

This is the estimate of a journalist who visited the local morgue with the area's governor on Wednesday.

State radio reporter Ibrahim Abdulazeez said that Adamawa sState's gGovernor Boni Haruna had visited Numan in the aftermath of Tuesday's sectarian clash.

The governor imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and ordered police to shoot rioters on sight.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1540119,00.html

Who is the 'governor' of CheveronTexaico and how long did he impose the curfew?

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2. 100 Killed in Fresh Adamawa Violence - Gov Orders Shoot-On-Sight

BARELY 28 days after the Kano ethno-religious strife, fresh sectarian violence in the commercial nerve centre of Adamawa State, Numan, on Tuesday claimed at least 100 lives.

Several more persons were said to have been injured even as thousands of people have fled the town which had been the scene of a seething strife between Muslims and Christians, mainly Bachama youths.

A concerned Gov. Boni Haruna, who visited the flashpoint yesterday, gave a shoot-on-sight order to security operatives on the ground just as a dusk to dawn curfew was imposed on the town.

100 Killed in Fresh Adamawa Violence....