Religious Clashes Kill 200 in Nigerian City

Clashes between Christian and Muslim gangs over a local election have killed an estimated 200 people over the weekend in the central Nigerian city of Jos. Rival gangs burned homes, mosques, churches and businesses in two days of fighting that began when the results of a local government chairmanship election ran into dispute. Authorities are however reported to have quelled the religious clashes and may lift a curfew that was imposed when the fighting began. Lying at the crossroads between Nigeria's Muslim north and Christian south, Jos has periodically experienced violent religious conflict in the past.[PE]