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200 – 500 people, most of them Christians, were slaughtered on Sunday in central Nigeria. Muslims with machetes came from the nearby hills early Sunday morning. Hundreds of villagers, including women and children, were hacked to death or burned in their homes. The city of Jos, in central Nigeria, has become an explosive fault line between the country's Muslim dominated north and predominantly Christian south. The killings occurred in three villages in and around Dogo Nahawa, three miles south of the region's main city of Jos. The violence comes after sectarian killings in January left more than 300 dead, most of them Muslim. Sunday's bloodshed appears to be reprisal attacks. http://www.examiner.com/x-10853-Portland-Humanist-Examiner~y2010m3d8-Religion-Mu… added by: locutus