Lagos - Ethnic clashes in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa have spread to neighbouring Taraba where at least 20 people have been killed in a fresh outbreak of violence, newspapers reported yesterday.
More than 25,000 people fled their homes following an attack on villages of the Tiv minority by a gang consisting of men from the Fulani and Jukun tribes in Donga local government, the majority government-owned Daily Times said.
Local police authorities refused to comment on the latest outbreak of violence, which is said by the newspaper to have started in Wukari local government and spread to Donga.
Fighting in the farming state of Nasarawa, bordering the federal capital territory of Abuja, erupted last month when the chief of the Azara people was assassinated.
