(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A mosque and Islamic school have been attacked and set alight in the southern Nigerian city of Benin, police say.
Police told UK's BBC that one person was killed, 10 arrested and that part of the mosque was still burning.
It follows a separate attack on a different mosque in the city on Monday.
A leader of the Hausa community in Benin told the BBC's Hausa Service that 7,000 northerners were seeking refuge in police and army barracks in the city.
Two cars at the centre housing the mosque and Islamic school were also torched, police said.
The attack is the latest in a spiral of sectarian violence that has seen many southerners living in the north flee their homes.
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Police told UK's BBC that one person was killed, 10 arrested and that part of the mosque was still burning.
It follows a separate attack on a different mosque in the city on Monday.
A leader of the Hausa community in Benin told the BBC's Hausa Service that 7,000 northerners were seeking refuge in police and army barracks in the city.
Two cars at the centre housing the mosque and Islamic school were also torched, police said.
The attack is the latest in a spiral of sectarian violence that has seen many southerners living in the north flee their homes.
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