Nigeria

[Schneemann]

Nigeria police in deadly clash with sect in Bauchi

At least 38 people have died in clashes between security forces and members of a religious sect in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi.

The dead were mainly from a group calling itself Kala Kato. Two soldiers and a policeman were also killed. The fighting came after local people told authorities they were alarmed by open-air preaching by sect members. Such preaching was banned in the state after an uprising by another sect, Boko Haram, earlier this year. Hundreds of people were killed in the subsequent fighting across northern Nigeria.

The BBC's Caroline Duffield reports from Lagos that Kala Kato is a non-conformist Muslim sect made up of poor tradesmen, labourers and other working people.

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