MUSLIMS fled this southeast Nigerian city and corpses still smouldered in its streets as two days of sectarian violence that killed more than 50 people subsided.

BODIES littered the streets of the southern Nigerian city of Onitsha yesterday as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at least 96.

Gangs of rioters armed with machetes and shotguns poured through the streets of the mainly Christian southern city of Onitsha today as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at least 76.

Christian mobs rampaged through a southern Nigerian city today, burning mosques and killing several people in an outbreak of anti-Muslim violence that followed deadly protests against caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed over the weekend.