28 Dec 2010
Source: reuters // Reuters
JOS, Nigeria, Dec 28 (Reuters) - At least 80 people were killed in Christmas Eve bombings and clashes between Muslim and Christian youths in central Nigeria, officials say.
The police said on Saturday 32 people were killed in the bomb attacks but with more than 100 wounded in hospital the death count was expected to rise.
"We have recovered 80 dead bodies so far in Jos," Daniel Gambo, an official at the Nigerian emergency management agency said late on Monday.
The chief of defence staff said two suspects were arrested in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, in possession of dynamite and dangerous weapons on Monday.
(Reporting Felix Onuah and Shuaibu Mohammed; writing by Joe Brock; editing by Angus MacSwan)
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