| Nigerian police said today at least five people were killed when a Muslim militia attacked a village in central Plateau state just hours after president Olusegun Obasanjo declared emergency rule in the area. The attack on the mainly Christian Sabon Gida village in strife-torn Shendam district yesterday was the latest episode in the cycle of tit-for-tat violence which Obasanjo has said is threatening to plunge the whole country into crisis. "I am aware that about five people were killed in the incident, but more troops have been moved to the area," Innocent Ilozuoke, the Plateau police commissioner, said in Jos, the state capital. |