Christian villagers wail as hundreds of Nigerians slaughtered in machete ‘revenge’ attacks are buried in mass graves
Mail Foreign Service 9th March 2010
Nigerian villagers wailed in the streets as dump trucks carried hundreds of bodies past burned-out homes towards a mass grave.
This was the scene of insurmountable grief after rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 500 people in a revenge attack following religious clashes near Nigeria’s city of Jos.
The killers had shown no mercy. They didn’t spare women and children, or even a four-day-old baby, from their machetes. In one area alone, five babies and 28 children aged five or less were killed.
Rubber-gloved workers pulled ever-smaller bodies from the dump truck and tossed them into the mass grave.
A crowd began singing a hymn with the refrain, ‘Jesus said I am the way to heaven.’ As the grave filled, the grieving crowd sang: ‘Jesus, show me the way.’ (more…)








