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300 massacred in Nigeria

Sharia law to be withdrawn
LAGOS. Mar I; Almost 300 people have been massacred In a southeastern Nigerian town, in leprisals for the killings of hundreds ol people in the north last week a Nigerian reporter told AFP late Tuesday.
I have never seen anything like it in my life. There were bodicseverywhere. We saw. we counted. 292 bodies." said the reporter, who works for a Nigerian daily newspaper.
The victims in Aba appe red to northern Hausas. who are almost all Muslim, killed by local Ibos from the southeast, who are mostly Christian, in reprisal for the killings of Ibos in the northern city of Kaduna last weft, he said.
Hundreds of Hausas had taken refuge in the police station in Aba. said the reporter, contacted in the nearby city of Port Harcourt.
The reports of the massacre
came ns the government announced that the governors of three northern Nigerian states had agreed to revoke legislation introducing Islamic Sharia
Vice President Atlku Abubakar told reporters that the decision to withdraw the legislation passed by three states came at an emergency meeting of the country's 36 state governors presided over by President Olusegun Obasanjo. »
It was decided and ag eed that, as far as the Sharia law is concerned, we will return to the status quo ante.-' he told reporters after the meeting.
This has been agreed by the northern governors." he added.
The introduction of the law and demands for its extension io other states In northern Nigeria had sparked the riots last week in northern Nigeria which set of the latest wave of
killings.
The reporter In Port Harcourt described horrific scenes in Aba Tuesday.
Around the town there were piles of bodies. We saw 16 bodies piled up In one area. 22 bodies on another corner." he said.
The reporter. who said he had visited Aba earlier Tuesday in the company of another Nigerian dally newspaper reporter and two Nigerian weekly magazine reporters, said Ibo youths were manning barricades Tuesdav afternoon on roads around the town
'They were searching any cars leaving the town for Hausas. and if they found them, dragging them out and killing them." he said.
Several truckloads of troops were seen driving to the town from Port Harcourt on Tuesday afternoon, the reporter said.