At the least 100 folks have been killed in a gun assault in a village in north-central Nigeria, Amnesty Worldwide has claimed.
The human rights group’s department in Nigeria mentioned the assault occurred between Friday night and Saturday morning in Yelewata, a group within the Guma space of Benue state.
“Many families were locked up and burnt inside their bedrooms,” the group mentioned in a publish on X. “So many bodies were burnt beyond recognition.”
It mentioned a whole bunch of individuals have been injured and have been with out ample medical care, whereas dozens of others have been lacking.
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A police spokesperson in Benue confirmed that an assault occurred in Yelewata however didn’t specify how many individuals had died.
Amnesty famous in a press release that there had been an “alarming escalation of attacks across Benue state where gunmen have been on a killing spree with utter impunity”.
“The Nigerian authorities’ failure to stem the violence is costing people’s lives and livelihoods, and without immediate action many more lives may be lost,” it added.
Final month, gunmen, believed to be herders, killed no less than 20 folks within the Gwer West space of Benue.
In April, no less than 40 folks have been killed within the neighbouring state of Plateau.
Benue is in Nigeria’s ‘center belt’, a area the place the bulk Muslim north meets the largely Christian south.
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Assaults are widespread in Nigeria’s northern areas, the place native herders and farmers usually conflict over restricted entry to land and water.
Farmers accuse the herders, largely of Fulani origin, of grazing their livestock on their farms and destroying their produce.
The herders insist that the lands are grazing routes that have been first backed by legislation in 1965, 5 years after the nation gained its independence.
