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More victims of deadly religious clashes in central Nigeria have been found, with scores of bodies stuffed in wells and sewage pits. 尼日利亚中部地区的宗教冲突之后,越来越多的的死亡者被发现,井中和下水道也堆满了大量尸体。 An exact death toll is not known but aid workers say it may be 300 Up to 150 bodies have been found in Kuru Karama village, 30km (18 miles) from the city of Jos, where the violence erupted爆发 last Sunday. Correspondents say elders hid in holes for seven hours to escape the violence. An exact death toll死亡人数 is not known but overall 300 or more are thought to have died in the Muslim-Christian clashes. Muslim officials in Jos who spoke2 to the campaign group Human Rights Watch said 364 Muslims had been killed. Several thousand people fled their homes. 'Burned alive' The BBC's Caroline Duffield in Jos says the town and the area to the south of it are under tight military control but more details of the violence there are starting to emerge. She says many of the bodies found in Kuru Karama had massive burns, other victims were hacked3被乱砍的 to death or shot. She says there are still more bodies scattered4 in the bush beyond the village but the areas are not safe for volunteer workers to enter. Bukuru market, a large commercial area to the south of Jos, was burned to the ground, with at least 1,000 shops and homes in the markets destroyed in the inferno阴间,地狱, our correspondent adds. Umar Baza, head of Kuru Karama village, told AFP法新社 news agency: "So far we have picked 150 bodies from the wells. But 60 more people are still missing." Human Rights Watch said armed men had attacked the mostly Muslim Kuru Karama on 19 January. "After surrounding the town, they hunted down and attacked Muslim residents, some of whom had sought refuge寻求庇护 in homes and a local mosque6, killing7 many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive," it said in a statement. It quoted one villager as saying: "I came back on Wednesday evening escorted陪同,护送 by the military. I saw dead bodies everywhere. The corpses尸体 were there, but now you can just see the blood on the ground. None of the houses are standing9." 点击收听单词发音
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