Unidentified gunmen have torched several homes in the Nigerian community of Tafawa Balewa.
|||Bauchi - Gunmen torched houses and burned at least three people to death in a dawn attack on a town in central Nigeria on Thursday.
The attackers shot at random as they entered the community in the town of Tafawa Balewa in Bauchi state at around 6am before setting buildings ablaze, state police commissioner Muhammed Indabawa told reporters.
“My men discovered three charred bodies that cannot be identified,” he said.
The region has been beset by years of sectarian violence.
Bauchi lies close to Plateau state, where religious and ethnic clashes have killed more than 200 people since December.
The tension is rooted in decades of resentment between indigenous groups, mostly Christian or animist, who are vying for control of fertile farmlands and for economic and political power with migrants and settlers for the Muslim north.
There have been frequent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in villages around Jos, the capital of Plateau state, since a series of bombs were detonated during Christmas Eve celebrations in December, killing scores of people.
The violence is largely contained within one region of Africa's most populous nation and does not risk derailing presidential and parliamentary elections in April, although the area is a potential flashpoint during local polls. - Reuters
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/three-burned-alive-in-nigeria-1.1039741
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