Nigeria - 'Our lives will never be the same again'

In Kuru Karama village, 30km from Nigeria's central city of Jos, only four of some 3,000 residents remain; the rest have fled or been killed, said village chief Umar Baza. Every home has been destroyed. Resident Amadu Moussa, a commercial truck driver, was away on a job when violence broke out in Kuru Karama on January 19. He returned when his brother called to tell him 10 family members had been killed. Moussa broke down as he watched his 73-year-old father's corpse being retrieved from a well. Some 60 bodies were thrown into wells in two days of violence, according to village chief Baza. IRIN saw bodies in bushes, in the remains of burnt houses and compounds. "Our lives will never be the same again, having lost our loved ones and everything [we had] having been destroyed," Moussa told IRIN. "I can't see us rebuilding this village. It's just impossible. We will have to move on and find somewhere safe to stay."