Many dozens of people were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in ethnic and religious clashes in this northern Nigerian town last month, witnesses said Wednesday.
"There are many dozens who have been killed. At least 50 but probably many more. It has been terrible," Hassan Balewa, a trader in Tafawa Balewa, told AFP.
More were killed in four villages in the Bogoro local government area, reliable medical sources speaking on condition of anonymity said, pushing the estimated death toll into the hundreds.
Two of the villages -- Gagare and Jigawa -- are mainly ethnic Hausa Muslim villages and were attacked by Christian youths from the Sayawa ethnic community, the sources said.
Fighting also took place in the other two villages -- Gittal and Gobbya -- which are mainly Sayawa Christian, the sources said -- TAFAWA BALEWA, Nigeria (AFP)
