KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Post-election riots in northern Nigeria have killed at least 50 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.
Hundreds have been injured and thousands displaced by violence across the mostly-Muslim north after President Goodluck Jonathan won weekend elections. His rival, northerner and ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, says the vote was rigged.
Charred corpses lay in the Gonin-Gora neighbourhood of Kaduna yesterday, one of them apparently “necklaced” with a
