CNews World JOS: Clashes left at least one person dead and a number of houses burned in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday amid tensions following a series of Christmas Eve bomb attacks that killed dozens.

Soldiers patrolled the streets of the central Nigerian city and authorities sought to keep the violence from further spreading after Friday”s bombs that claimed at least 32 lives.

“There were some skirmishes between the two groups and it”s under control now,” state police commissioner Abdulrahman Akano told AFP. “One or two houses were burnt.”

Asked about deaths, he said, “we have seen only one — one person.”

The commissioner said the two groups involved in the clashes were “the locals and the so-called settlers.”

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