**The Nigerian army says it has regained control of the city of Jos, where fighting between Muslims and Christians in recent days has left scores dead.**Lt Col Shekari Galadima told the BBC the city was “very calm” as the army was enforcing a 24-hour curfew. He insisted there would be no more riots.
But a BBC reporter in the region says the violence has now spread to Pankshin town, 100km (60 miles) from Jos.
Rights groups say at least 200 people are believed to have died since Sunday.
Jos has been blighted by religious violence over the past decade.
At least 200 people were killed in an outbreak of fighting between Muslims and Christians in 2008, while some 1,000 died in a riot in 2001.
‘Little faith’
Col Galadima told the BBC’s Network Africa programme that Jos city “has been brought under control tremendously”.
“Because of the 24-hour curfew imposed by the government, movement has been restricted so you cannot have any riots or any demonstrations going on,” he said.
“Our troops in combination with the police are fully deployed and fully on the ground to check all movements.”
But the BBC Hausa service’s Shehu Saulawa says public buildings are burning and riots have been reported in Pankshin.
And the Jos-based League for Human Rights said people have little faith in the security forces to restore order.
The group’s Shamaki Gad told the BBC that no-one had been prosecuted for participating in previous religious and ethnic clashes.
Jos is in Nigeria’s volatile Middle Belt - between the mainly Muslim north and the south where the majority is Christian or follow traditional religions.
Correspondents say such clashes in Nigeria are often blamed on sectarianism.
However, poverty and access to resources such as land often lie at the root of the violence.
It is unclear what the trigger was for the latest bout of violence.
Plateau State spokesman Dan Manjang told Network Africa there were reports that it may have started after a football match.
But he said it would be surprising if football was the reason.
Reuters quoted residents as saying the violence started after an argument over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in the 2008 clashes.