Mobs burned homes and places of worship and more than 20 people were killed on a second day of post-election sectarian violence yesterday in the central Nigerian city of Jos.

At least 35 people have died since Thursday night when violence broke out after the first local election in Jos in over a decade. Several homes were destroyed and more churches and mosques were burned early yesterday, when a dusk-to-dawn curfew expired and some people ventured out of their homes.

Mobs gathered after electoral workers failed to post results in ballot collation centres, prompting many onlookers to assume the vote was fraudulent.