At least 25 people were killed in violent clashes, at the weekend, between Christian and Muslim mobs in Taraba State, prompting a round-the-clock curfew, an aid worker has said.
.
This happened as gunmen suspected to be armed robbers killed three persons in Yola, Adamawa State capital.
.
The toll of the weekend violence reached 32 after local government elections in Kogi State left four, including an aspirant, dead.
.
"We have recovered 20 bodies from the violence so far," the Taraba aid workers said about the Friday unrest 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.
.
Authorities have imposed a curfew in the area following the bloody clashes, officials said.
.
Local residents said the violence erupted when the funeral procession of a traditional chief from the predominantly Christian Jukun ethnic group marched through a Muslim neighbourhood chanting slogans, which Muslims viewed as an act of provocation.
.
Tensions have been on the rise in the mostly Christian town of Wukari since February, when a dispute over the use of a football pitch between Muslim and Christian soccer teams set off sectarian riots that claimed several lives.
.
In the Adamawa incident, the three victim were killed at a popular shopping centre in Vinikland along the every busy Yola – Mubi Road.
.
Eyewitnesses said the gunmen earlier robbed an NNPC Mega Filling Station and another private filling station before they proceeded to the shopping centre.