there would be no more riots. But a BBC reporter in the region says the violence has now spread to Pankshin town, 100km (60 miles) from Jos. Religious officials said at least 265 people had died since Sunday. Among the dead were said to be 65 Christians and 200 Muslims.Muhammad Tanko sh*ttu, a senior mosque official organising mass burials, gave a much higher death toll - telling Reuters news agency more than 350 Muslims had died. He said the death toll had risen as workers retrieved bodies from areas outside the city of Jos on Wednesday. The figures could not be independently verified. Jos has been blighted by religious violence over the past decade with deadly riots in 2001 and 2008. The city is in Nigeria's volatile Middle Belt - between the mainly Muslim north and the south where the majority is Christian or follow traditional religions. Violence spreadingCol Galadima told the BBC's Network Africa programme that Jos city has been brought under control tremendously.Because of the 24-hour curfew imposed by the government, movement has been restricted so you cannot have any riots or any demonstrations going on, he said. The Associated Press reported that soldiers with machine guns were patrolling in pick-up trucks and residents were stopping and raising their hands to show they were not a threat as the trucks passed. Meanwhile http://suprashoesuk1.webs.com/ - cheap supra shoes , the BBC Hausa Service's Shehu Saulawa says the violence appears to have spread to the town of Pankshin. On Wednesday morning, one resident of Pankshin told our reporter by telephone the fighting began at 2230 (2130 GMT) on Tuesday. He said the unrest had continued into Wednesday morning but no soldiers could be seen on the streets http://suprashoesuk2.webs.com/ - cheap supra shoes . Another family told the BBC they had fled the town to neighbouring Bauchi State to escape the violence http://www.mbtshoes4australia.com/ - mbt shoes clearance australia . But Plateau State spokesman Dan Manjang dismissed the accounts from Pankshin as rumours.
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