JOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The top religious official at the main mosque in a riot-hit Nigerian city says the death toll has reached more than 300 people in two days of election-related violence.

Sheikh Khalid Abubakar says the bodies were brought to the Jos central mosque on Saturday for prayers before a quick burial in keeping with Islamic rites. Fifteen other people were reported dead Friday in rioting that broke out after the city's first round of balloting in more than a decade.

The violence has been the worst to hit Africa's most-populous nation in recent years.

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