More than 100 individuals have been killed in central Nigeria in a collection of assaults on villages, native authorities officers mentioned Monday.
“At least 113 bodies have been recovered as hostilities that started Saturday continued Monday morning,” Monday Kassah, head of the native authorities in Bokkos, Plateau State, instructed AFP.
“We were sleeping when suddenly loud shots rang out,” mentioned Markus Amorudu, a resident of the village.
“We were scared because we weren’t expecting an attack. People hid, but the assailants captured many of us, some were killed, others wounded,” he instructed AFP.
The area is on the dividing line between Nigeria’s largely Muslim north and primarily Christian south and has for years struggled with ethnic and non secular tensions.
It was not instantly clear what sparked the most recent assault and who was accountable.
Security personnel have been deployed to forestall any extra clashes within the space, the place tit-for-tat killings between herders, who’re most frequently Muslim, and farmers, who’re usually Christian, usually spiral into village raids by closely armed gangs.
State Gov. Caleb Mutfwang condemned the most recent assault as “barbaric, brutal and uncalled for” and vowed to carry the perpetrators to justice, his spokesman, Gyang Bere, instructed reporters.
“Proactive measures will be taken by government to curb the ongoing attacks on innocent citizens,” Bere quoted the governor as saying.
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