Eyewitnesses said the attackers
set fire to
more than half a dozen houses as well as a church in the early hours of Saturday morning. The army says it's deployed troops to the area and brought the situation under control.
They have not, however, reintroduced a curfew which was imposed when
simmer
ing sectarian tensions exploded in March, leaving several hundred dead.
Jos lies on a fault line between the mainly Muslim north and predominantly Christian south. At the heart of the clashes lie deep-rooted resentments between
indigenous
groups and settlers over land and possessions of power.
Afghan and international troops have destroyed almost two tons of processed heroin in Helmand province. The heroin was found with
quantities of
raw opium and ammonium nitrate which officials say could have also been used to make roadside bombs.
Police in Bangladesh have arrested an army major accused of transporting hundreds of bottles of illegal cough syrup. It has opium-based codeine in it and is widely abused. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports from Dhaka.
Since drinking liquor is not permitted for Muslims in Bangladesh, the syrup is used as an
alternative
to alcohol and heroin and cocaine. Researchers say the abuse of the drug seriously affects the liver and central nervous system, and in the long run kills the user. The problem of Phensedyl was so widespread that government banned the use of the syrup way back in 1982. But thousands of bottles of the syrup are still being smuggled into Bangladesh mostly from neighbouring India.