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Tue 03 Mar 2010Hundreds killed in Nigerian ethnic strife
PREGNANT WOMEN and children were among the hundreds killed in central Nigeria on Sunday morning in the latest round of ethnic and religious clashes to hit the region.
Local rights activists put the death toll at more than 250, while government-run radio is already reporting that 500 people were slaughtered in a nocturnal raid on three villages on the fringes of Jos, the capital of Plateau state.
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