What the records say
- When
- 28 Nov 2008
- Kind
- Riot
- Deaths
- 761
- Coordinates
- 9.93° N, 8.89° E
- Description
- religiously-motivated riots in Nigeria
Placed at the town its title names, Jos.
2008 Jos riots
Religious riots in Nigeria
The 2008 Jos riots were riots involving Christians and Muslims over the result of a local election on 28 and 29 November 2008 in Jos, a city in the North central region of Nigeria. Two days of rioting left hundreds injured and at least 761 dead. The Nigerian army was deployed and by 30 November order was restored.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in the central Nigerian town of Jos after Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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