Dozens of Houses Burn in Sectarian Clashes

Dozens of houses were torched and four soldiers were shot in fresh fighting between Muslims and Christians on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, witnesses and hospital officials said.

The clashes cap a week of sectarian violence on the island that has killed at least seven people and caused thousands to flee.

Fighting has killed at least 1,000 people in the last two years. The recent violence is blamed on the arrival of hundreds of fighters belonging to the Laskar Jihad, a paramilitary Muslim group accused of stoking a sectarian conflict in neighboring Maluku province.