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World, March 9, 2010 (Pal Telegraph,AFP) -Workers close mass graves in Jos where dozens of people killed during violent religious clashes have been buried, January 2010. Nigeria's government has sent troops to the flashpoint Jos region after attacks by machete-wielding gangs on Christian villages that officials say killed at least 500 people.
File photo shows residents carrying possessions past a burnt building following violent clashes in the town of Kuru Karama, 30 kilometres from Jos. Nigeria's acting president has put security forces on alert after machete wielding gangs massacred at least 500 people, mainly women and children, near the central city of Jos.
Map of Nigeria locating ethnic violence in Dogo Nahawa, just south of Jos.
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