NIGERIA — Twenty Christian students have been confirmed dead and 50 others injured following a bloody clash with Muslim schoolmates at the Federal College of Education in the city of Zaria, northern Nigeria.
Police detained eight people in connection with the Oct. 31 violence, which erupted over student elections. Sources said Muslim militants infiltrated the campus to assist the 15,000 Muslim students in attacks against Christians.
In a separate incident, 40 Christians died in Fajul, Plateau state, when a force of 2,000 Muslim militants invaded the village in the early morning hours of Oct. 24. Assailants burned down homes, raped several women and ambushed and killed 17 policemen sent to rescue the villagers.
Earlier, 17 Christians died in a similar attack on the village of Kassa. Christian leaders in the area said that heavily armed mercenaries from Chad and Niger aided local Muslim militants in the attacks on Fajul and Kassa.
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