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Page last updated at 01:49 GMT, Tuesday, 9 March 2010

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In pictures: Mourning in Nigeria

Mass burials have been taking place in villages near the city of Jos in Nigeria after hundreds of people were killed in ethnic violence at the weekend.

Residents walk past a burnt car in Dogo-Nahwa

The latest attacks are said to have been reprisals for clashes in January, when at least 200 people were killed in violence between Christians and Muslims.

Women react to the sight of bodies in Dogo-Nahwa

Many of the dead in the villages of Zot and Dogo-Nahawa are reported to be women and children.

Man looks on after bodies are placed in a mass grave in Dogo-Nahawa

Local chiefs told the BBC that people in nearby villages feared more attacks.

A woman carries a mattress as she tries to flee her home in Tintin, south of Jos

Hundreds of people have fled from Jos in the aftermath of the fighting.

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