Nigeria: OIC urges end to Nigeria violence
Date 2010/3/11 14:29:42 | Topic: Afran
| OIC, march 11 (Alaalam) -- The Organization of the Islamic Conference has called for warring parties in Nigeria to iron out differences and put an end to the bloodletting, which has claimed 109 lives.
OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in a statement condemned the violence between Muslim and Christian communities.
A Nigerian state police chief revised Wednesday the death toll from weekend sectarian massacres from 500 to 109.
He said the earlier death toll in the Nigerian city of Jos provided by government officials was fabricated.
Plateau State police commissioner Ikechukwu Aduba gave a breakdown of the list of people killed.
The state's information commissioner Gregory Yenlong told AFP over 500 people had been killed in an orgy of violence in three predominantly Christian villages near Jos.
The police chief said Yenlong was among a group of senior government, medical and police officials who witnessed the body count was conducted.
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