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March 21, 2007
Nigeria: Muslim Pupils Kill Their Christian Teacher
Gombe (yellow on map) is a small state in the northeast of Nigeria. According to Reuters SA, earlier today, a Christian teacher at a secondary school was lynched to death by Muslim pupils.
At the school in Gombe, Oluwatoyin Olusase was acting as an invigilator at an "Islamic Religious Knowledge examination. When the exam was over, pupils attacked her outside the school, claiming that she had "desecrated" the Koran. Whatever incident she had done is not recorded.
Joseph Ibi, state prosecutor said: "We have received information that a female teacher has been lynched by her students. We are investigating the report."
In February 2006 in Bauchi state, adjacent to Gombe (purple on map), a Christian teacher in a secondary school had tried to confiscate a Koran from a pupil who was reading it in class. As a result, rioting broke out in which 5 people were killed and several churches were burned down.
The circumstances today seem similar. Police claimed that their intervention had prevented a riot.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at March 21, 2007 12:13 PM
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