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KANO, Nigeria, Nov 26 (AFP) - Nigerian security agents on Friday averted a round of revenge attacks on Christian Yorubas by Muslim Hausas following ethnic clashes in Lagos the previous day, an officer said.
The officer in the State Security Service (SSS), who asked not to be named, said agents acting on a tip had broken up a meeting of a group calling itself Concerned Citizens, which was set to launch the attacks later Friday.
The SSS, he said, uncovered the plans for the retaliatory violence after clashes Thursday between Yorubas and Hausas in Lagos in which around 30 people were killed.
The officer said the group stopped on Friday "wanted to do this as a reprisal against the Yorubas for Thursday's killing of Hausas in Lagos."
The attacks were to be launched after Friday evening Muslim prayers, he said.
The mainly Christian Yorubas are the main ethnic group in southwest Nigeria. The mainly Muslim Hausas dominate in the north of the country.
The attacks on the Hausas in Lagos were condemned Thursday by President Olusegun Obasanjo.
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