Lagos — The Human Rights Watch (HRW), global rights watchdog, on Saturday urged Aso Rock to order an "immediate criminal investigation into credible reports of a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents of a town in central Nigeria."
The demand came as report emerged that at least 150 bodies have been recovered from wells following deadly Muslim-Christian clashes in central Nigeria, a village headman said on Saturday, taking the unofficial death toll past 400.
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