SECURITY: 16 people were killed in ethnic conflict in Plateau State The military reported that 16 persons were murdered in two attacks in ...

 

SECURITY: 16 people were killed in ethnic conflict in Plateau State

The military reported that 16 persons were murdered in two attacks in the ethnically volatile region of north-central Nigeria.

In Plateau State, which is on the border between the predominantly Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south of Nigeria, fighting broke out between herdsmen and farmers.

An attack in the Mangu area last Tuesday claimed the lives of 10, while some gunmen killed members of the farmers' association in the Riyom district, according to the spokesman. an army.

According to Major Ishaku Takwa, six people died in Riyom on Wednesday.

Ten individuals were killed in another incident in other Mangu settlements.

Bala Fwangje, a member of parliament for Mangu South and the Plateau State, reported 14 fatalities in the region.

"We heard that about 14 people were killed, houses were destroyed, and properties were burned, but I still haven't received any details," the man stated.

In the Riyom, Barikin Ladi, and Mangu districts of Plateau, a dispute between the primarily Christian Berom tribe and the Muslim Fulani herding group has claimed nearly 200 lives since May.

Unknown factors may have contributed to the most recent attacks in Plateau, but villages where some armed groups commit the attacks frequently become the scene of ranchers and farmers' retaliatory killings. robbing, kidnapping, and murdering individuals.

President Bola Tinubu, who assumed control of the most populous nation in Africa at the end of May, is currently dealing with a number of security issues, including the war in the Plateau.