Three people were killed and two seriously wounded when police raided two Islamic schools in central Nigeria. The raid on the schools in Jos on Friday followed a tipoff that members of an outlawed religious sect âMaitatsineâ were hiding there, Kaduna Radio said. The âMaitatsineâ group was responsible for bloody religious violence in some parts of northern Nigeria in the 1980s that left hundreds of people dead. The radio said three people were shot dead, two wounded and 175 arrested during the raid. Jos, a once quiet and peaceful city, is fast assuming a hotbed of religious and communal violence in central Nigeria.
| The latest from Islam's bloody border. Wonder who finances those schools? Just coincidence, of course. |
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