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January 03, 2011

AP: Bomb blasts, church attacks show violent Christian, Muslim split in Nigeria ahead of election

by Jon Gambrell
The Associated Press

LAGOS, Nigeria - Multiple explosions rocked a central Nigerian city, another bomb killed at least four at an army barracks in the capital and a radical Muslim sect burned churches in the northeast.

The new violence over the past two weeks highlights the tensions between Nigeria's two major faiths — Christians and Muslims — and threatens peace ahead of the young democracy's April presidential election.

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