AFP
17 January 2011
JOS, Nigeria — A Christian mob razed a mosque and hacked an electoral worker to death Monday as it barred Muslim organisers of April's polls from a registration exercise in Nigeria's Jos region, police said.
Two other people were shot dead when soldiers escorting the workers opened fire after coming under a hail of rocks from the Christian gang. The killings are the latest in a surge of attacks ahead of the April general election.
Shortly before the killings the marauding gang had destroyed a mosque in an attack which took place in a busy downtown part of Jos known as Tina junction.
Plateau state commissioner of police, Abdulrahman Olajide Akano said the youths descended on the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group workers, saying they did not want them to conduct the voter registration exercise.
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