The acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has placed the security forces in the centre on full alert following a fresh wave of sectarian violence near the city of Jos. Witnesses say, they saw more than a hundred corpses, many of them women and children in a village Dogo Nahawa just a few kilometers from the city. A spokesman for the Red Cross says scores of people have been taken to hospitals with machete wounds and they have been treated by Red Cross volunteers. In January, Jos was put under military curfew following violence between Christians and Muslims Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered security forces to prevent more weapons being brought into the area around the city of Jos. More than 100 people, many of them women and children, are believed dead after yesterday's attacks in the area. Reports said, the mainly Christian villages had been attacked from the surrounding hills by men with machetes. Jos itself has been under curfew since January when at least 200 died in clashes between Christians and Muslims.