It has been reported that nine people lost thier lives yesterday in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State to a violence that broke out over an alleged insult against Prophet Muhammad by a Christian who is a student of Abud-Gusau Polytechnic Talata Mafara.
The Guardian learnt that the violence started within the polytechnic premises between an Hausa-Muslim and an Ebira Christian. The student allegedly insulted the prophet in his mother tongue (Ebira).
Trouble started when an Hausa student who understood Ebira language alerted other Muslims within the scene of the incident that the Christian had insulted Prophet Muhammad.
Thereafter, a group of students who felt aggrieved by the alleged insult, attacked the Christian student, this infuriated his Muslim colleagues who immediately descended on him, beating him to a pulp. A Muslim man by the name Tajudeen, who tried to salvage the situation, rushed in and was able to use his car to carry the unconscious Christian student to the hospital.
This infuriated the Muslim students who then went to Tajudeen’s house and burnt it down, killing eight occupants in his house.
When the Christian student was discharged from the hospital, some youths embarked on a search for him during which they burnt the vehicle that conveyed him to the hospital.
The Muslim students and other rioters started burning tyres and some houses n the area where they suspected the accused person was being kept.
The state governor, Abdulaziz Yari, joined hundreds of others to bury the deceased who were killed in the inferno.
Meanwhile a 12-hour curfew in the community starting from 7p.m. to 7a.m. daily has been imposed by the police.
Eight students of the college were set ablaze in one of the houses that were burnt by the rioters, after they entered the house to search for the accused person.
Source: The Guuardian
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