Nigerian police say 49 people are to be charged with murder after communal violence left scores of villagers dead.

Most of those facing charges are Muslims from the Fulani group, police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told the BBC.

The number of those arrested since the killings near the city of Jos has risen to 200, he said.

Police say 109 people - thought to be mostly Christians - died in Sunday's bloodshed. Earlier reports put the toll at more than 500.

The violence followed sectarian killings near Jos in January that left more than 300 dead, most of them believed to be Muslims.

Plateau State, in central Nigeria, sits between the mainly Christian south and the predominantly Muslim north.
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Police say 109 people - thought to be mostly Christians - died in Sunday's bloodshed. Earlier reports put the toll at more than 500.

Haiti was able to give the accurate death toll from quake even as it was in thousands. Here we are again we don't even know the total number of death toll in such an inhuman unrest. As usual the Nigerian Police are reducing the number of death toll to make the situation look casual to the international community.

I hope this suspects will seriousely pay for the killing of the innocent kids and women if found guilty.

Princekevo, you think that there will find any body guilty in Jos?

nice-guy10:

Princekevo, you think that there will find any body guilty in Jos?

I hope the will, or the blood of the innocents will continue to speak in that animal kingdom called Nigeria.

Namelessness mitigates the severity of any crime. -- RichyBlack, March 2010

Their full names (first, middle and last) must be published.

Also, the full names of all the victims must be published.

When we just say "500 people died" it reduces the severity of the crime committed by those marauding murderers roaming Northern Nigeria.