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Ethnic, religious riots kill 300 in northern Nigerian city
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KADUNA, Nigeria Mortuaries overflowed with corpses in this
northern Nigerian city Tuesday after two days of ethnic and
Christian-Muslim violence killed up to 300 people.
"It was terrible. People were killed as if they were dogs,"
said one businessman, caught in some of Nigeria's worst rioting in a
decade.
Soldiers and police patrolled almost deserted streets littered
with debris from wrecked cars and from stores, religious meeting
houses and other buildings razed by fire.
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