Eyewitness: Nigeria's 'town of death'

BBC NEWS | Africa | : "It is still not clear how many people lost their lives, although it is likely to be far higher than the official toll of 67. One man said 550 dead, another 600 - but some of those may be simply missing as many people fled during the attack. The men agreed, however, that 250 people had been buried the day before in a mass grave.

The president has set up a peace team to try and resolve the conflict - which is rooted in a dispute over access to land between the Christian ethnic groups and the Muslim Hausa-Fulani. Earlier this year, Muslim Hausa-Fulani in Yelwa killed 49 Christians who had taken refuge in a church. "