Woman, Four Children Slain In Jos
An overnight attack has killed at least four persons in tense central Nigeria, a region regularly hit by violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups, the military said on Monday.
The pre-dawn attack occurred in Dabwak, a mainly Christian village near the flashpoint city of Jos.

”There are four killed,” Brigadier General Hassan Umaru, commander of a military unit deployed in the area, told AFP.
Locals said five people – a mother and four children – were shot and killed, blaming Fulani Muslims for the attack.
“It’s the Fulanis that came shooting. They killed… my mother-in-law, three of my brothers-in-law and my sister-in-law,” said a woman before breaking down on the phone and hanging up.
Umaru said “any attack in the fringes of this area is suspected to be by Fulanis”. No arrests had been made.
Jos and its environs in central Plateau state have been hit by waves of violence involving Christian and Muslim ethnic groups in recent years that has left hundreds of people dead.
A series of Christmas Eve bomb blasts in Jos killed dozens and set off a new round of violence.
Plateau state is located in the Middle Belt between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south of Nigeria.
Much of the violence has been attributed to a struggle for economic and political power between the Christian Berom ethnic group, viewed as indigenous to the region, and Hausa-Fulani Muslims, seen as the more recent arrivals.
Over a  thousand people have died in the series of violence that had rocked the state in the last two years.
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