Nigeria: Calm Returns to Onitsha

24 February 2006

Lagos/Awka/Abuja/Minna — Calm yesterday returned to Onitsha, Anambra State's main commercial city after two days of reprisals for the killing of Igbo Christians by Moslem fanatics in Maiduguri, Borno State last weekend.

The Onitsha mayhem which reportedly led to the death of hundreds of people displaced many residents who had taken refuge in army and police barracks in the troubled city.

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