Nigeria: Hundreds homeless after police raze shanty town

Armed police and government workers razed hundreds of houses in a downtown slum in Lagos, Nigeria, forcing out hundreds of shocked residents to enforce a land ownership ruling.

Churches, mosques and a health clinic were among the buildings destroyed last week when police accompanied by workmen in a bulldozer began smashing and burning wooden and concrete-brick houses in the downtown swampy Makoko-Ayetoro area.