Emeute à Zonkwa : deux morts – 4 novembre 2011

2 Dead in Nigeria Post-Election Rioting

time.com

By AP / YINKA IBUKUN Friday, Nov. 04, 2011

(LAGOS, Nigeria) — Residents angered by an attack on a church rioted Friday in a central Nigeria town at the center of post-election violence earlier this year, with at least two people already dead, police officials said.

The riot began in rural Kaduna state in the town of Zonkwa, where 300 people died following the April 16 presidential election that saw sectarian violence. The area sits on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Christian south and Muslim north.

A senior police official in the town reached by The Associated Press confirmed the ongoing fighting but declined to comment further. A commotion could be heard on the line before the police officer hung up. Read more…