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reuters

KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Post-election rioting in northern Nigeria has killed at least 33 people in major cities alone, according to a tally from witnesses and rescue workers, but the overall death toll is believed to be much higher.

A Reuters correspondent saw five charred corpses lying in the Gonin-Gora neighbourhood of Kaduna, where the local government said it had already collected 12 bodies. A resident said two more bodies were lying outside his house.

The Red Cross confirmed at least six dead from Monday's riots in the city of Kano further north and eight dead in Katsina. There were also fatalities in the town of Zaria and in Sokoto in the remote northwest but the toll was unknown.