Heavily armed Nigerian security forces have restored calm to several Lagos neighborhoods, ending days of ethnic violence that killed at least 100 people.

Thousands of people have fled their homes since Saturday, when the clashes began between the northern, mainly Muslim, Hausa people and the Yorubas from the heavily Christian and animist southwest.

The two groups fought with guns, machetes, and other weapons and set fire to buildings in northern Lagos, including in the Idi Araba and Mushin areas. It is not clear what sparked the violence.

Nigerian Red Cross officials say hundreds of people were injured and about three-thousand people sought refuge at a temporary camp. Many people returned to find their homes burned and looted.

Schools and some businesses remained closed Tuesday as armed troops patrolled the streets searching for rioters. Residents say there was an uneasy calm in the bustling commercial capital of more than 12-million people.

Nigeria is still reeling from last week's explosions at a Lagos munitions which killed at least 1,000 people and left thousands more homeless.

Some information for this report provided by AP.

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