10 March 2010 - 12H54  

Police to charge 49 over Nigeria massacre
Injured twenty-year-old student Mercy John lies on a hospital bed following the religious violence that killed hundreds in Dogo Nahawa, south of Jos, Plateau State. Nearly 50 people from the mainly Muslim Fulani clan arrested after a weekend attack on Christian villages are to be charged with murder, the state police chief has said.
Injured twenty-year-old student Mercy John lies on a hospital bed following the religious violence that killed hundreds in Dogo Nahawa, south of Jos, Plateau State. Nearly 50 people from the mainly Muslim Fulani clan arrested after a weekend attack on Christian villages are to be charged with murder, the state police chief has said.

AFP - Nearly 50 people from the mainly Muslim Fulani clan arrested after a weekend attack on Christian villages are to be charged with murder, the state police chief said on Wednesday.

"We have 49 Fulanis arrested immediately after the attacks and in their statements they have confessed that they were on a revenge mission," Plateau State commissioner Ikechukwu Aduba told reporters.

"Charges for those arrested will be conspiracy and culpable homicide," he said.

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