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RV: Sagan: Moon Eclipse Sparks Unrest in Nigerian CityFrom SPACE.com, 10
January 2001
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/eclipse_unrest_010110_wg.h
tml
Moon Eclipse Sparks Unrest in Nigerian City
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) -- Rampaging Muslims burned down scores of
hotels and bars in a northern Nigerian city in reaction to the lunar eclipse
which they blamed on sinners, residents said on Wednesday.
Paramilitary police battled gangs of Muslim youths in the streets of the
largely Islamic city of Maiduguri for hours on Tuesday night.
Residents said at least 40 hotels or drinking houses were set ablaze.
Similar violence was reported in Barma town 50 miles (80 kilometers) away
where youths chanting Allahu Akbar (God is Great) took to the streets.
"The immoral acts committed in these places are responsible for this
eclipse," police quoted a youth leader as saying.
Police chief Uba Bala Ringim told Reuters in Maiduguri that five people had
been detained and more arrests were expected.
Religious violence has been a major problem in the largely Islamic north
over the past year. Hundreds of people were killed in two bouts of
Muslim-Christian bloodletting in the northern city of Kaduna over plans to
introduce Islamic sharia law in the area.
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