Nigeria - 4 Killed In Religious
Riots In Central Taraba
A Christian vigilante group killed a Muslim
resident who insisted on going through
their illegal checkpoint, triggering riots that
have left at least four people dead in
central Nigeria, a local official said Sunday,
and showing how communities have lost
faith in government's ability to protect
them.
Rioters have burned down houses and
shops in the remote area of Ibi, about 140
miles (230 kilometers) from the Taraba
state capital of Jalingo, said Ibi local
government chairman Isiaku Adamu.
Abubakar Abubakar Bello, an Ibi resident,
told The Associated Press that churches
and mosques were also torched as he
stood outside his home to protect it. He
said residents were fleeing his town.
A Taraba State government spokesman
Emmanuel Bello said Sunday that
authorities have sent troops to the area to
quell the violence.
Christians had put up several checkpoints
early Sunday to stop Muslims from nearing
their church during their services as a
response to church attacks in other parts
of the country, Adamu said.
The ensuing riots come three weeks after a
suicide bomber rammed an SUV loaded
with explosives into a Catholic church
holding Mass on Sunday in the north
central city of Kaduna, killing at least seven
people and wounding more than 100
others.
The car bombing was the latest high-
casualty attack targeting churches in a
West African nation of more than 160
million people evenly divided between
Muslims and Christians. No group
immediately claimed responsibility for the
attack. However, a radical Islamist sect
known as Boko Haram has previously
targeted churches in a bid to exacerbate
religious tensions in Nigeria.
In June, Boko Haram claimed responsibility
for church attacks that occurred three
weekends in a row in central and northern
Nigeria. The trio of attacks triggered
bloody reprisals, raising the toll to at least
50 deaths.
The most deadly attacks seem to have
targeted Christian holidays: An Easter Day
blast in Kaduna left at least 38 people
dead, and a Christmas Day suicide
bombing of a Catholic church near
Nigeria's capital killed at least 44. Boko
Haram claimed responsibility for both
attacks.
That threat has prompted churches to
boost their security, but Sunday's killing in
Ibi is the first reported death blamed on
Christian vigilante groups.
Boko Haram, which is held responsible for
more than 730 deaths this year alone,
according to an AP count, is also blamed
for attacks targeting mosques, churches,
schools, government buildings, phone
masts and universities.

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why gvn false news here. It was the muslim fighters who attacked xristians in the church when service was on, and evn burnt church. With dat jukun youths frm wukari, gindin waya, kente and other places stormed wukari and gave muslims the greatest killing of dia lives. Muslims were serioously killed dat the soldiers dat were sent stop the killings and calm things down were not able to stand the jukun warriors, s soldiers were out numbered. The youths dealt wt dem muslims until dey are ok den dey allowed soldiers to com in n declare curfew. MY PROBLEM WITH MUSLIMS IS DAT THEy WILL FIRST ATTACK, AND WHEN XrISTIANS RETALIATE THEY WILL RUN TO THE MEDIA n START SAYiN RUBBISH N CRYIN FOUL, THE SAME THING THEY I DID IN YELWA-SHENDAM.

The jukun youths or warriors stormed IBI nt WUKARI pls. Correction to ma above post.