At least 20 people were killed in violent clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs in central Nigeria's Taraba state on Friday, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has told AFP. "We have recovered 20 bodies from the violence so far," the source said Saturday, adding that the unrest had occurred in the town of Wukari, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the state capital Jalingo. "We are still going round the town in search of more bodies," he said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media about death tolls.

An attack Thursday in restive northern Nigeria where suspected Islamists stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police chief said. "Five policemen and 20 gunmen have been confirmed dead when some Boko Haram Terrorist attacked police formations in Gashua town," the Yobe state police commissioner, Sanusi Rufai, told journalists Friday. Nigeria's military had previously given a toll of seven dead in Thursday's clash.

Nigerian rescue workers set up temporary camps in a remote northeast town on Thursday and distributed aid to the masses displaced by brutal fighting that left 187 people dead. The bloodshed in the town of Baga near Lake Chad last Friday likely marked the deadliest-ever episode in the insurgency of Boko Haram, a radical group which has said it wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The military has been accused of firing indiscriminately on civilians and setting fire to nearly half the town, but Nigeria's defence ministry has fiercely denied those charges.

Nigeria rescue workers set up temporary camps in a remote northeast town on Thursday and distributed aid to the masses displaced by brutal fighting that left 187 people dead. The bloodshed in the town of Baga near Lake Chad likely marked the deadliest-ever episode in the insurgency of Boko Haram, a radical group which has said it wants to create an Islamic state in northern Nigeria. The military has been accused of firing indiscriminately on civilians and setting fire to nearly half the town, but Nigeria's defence ministry has fiercely denied those charges.