Curfew imposed, troops deployed in Nigerian city: official

AFP

10 11 2011

KANO, Nigeria — Authorities imposed an indefinite 24-hour curfew and deployed troops in the Nigerian town of Kafanchan Wednesday following clashes between Muslim and Christian youths, an official said.

Kafanchan, a major town in northern Kaduna state, and neighbouring Zonkwa, were the theatre of deadly post-election riots in April in which several hundreds of people died.

Kaduna state government spokesman Reuben Buhari said « the government imposed an indefinite 24-hour curfew Wednesday on Kafanchan following reports of threat to public peace in the town ».

« The situation has been brought under control and more soldiers and policemen have been deployed to the town. Soldiers have been ordered to arrest anyone seen outside on the streets, » Buhari told AFP on telephone.

Residents in the town told an AFP reporter that trouble started when security agents arrested some Christian youths, accused of killing their Muslim friend who visited them the previous day in their mainly Christian neighbourhood. Read more…

~ par Alain Bertho sur 10 novembre 2011.

Publié dans émeutes, riots