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Central Nigeria gun attacks kill 12: Police
[AlAhram] At least 12 people were killed at the weekend in two gun attacks in central Nigeria, an area where tensions have been rising between nomadic herders and local farming communities, police and officials said.In the first attack, button men opened fire from a car on a bar in Kuru in Jos in Plateau state, killing 10 people before driving off, local police front man Ubah Ogaba said. "We received a report that 10 persons were rubbed out in a drinking joint at Sabon Layi, Kuru in Jos South LGA by yet to be identified button men who drove in with a (Toyota) Hilux, shot sporadically and zoomed off," he said. Police said two other people were rubbed out on Sunday in Zagun village also in Plateau. State Governor Simon Lalong said in a statement that 12 people were killed in Kuru and five more critically maimed. Northwest and central Nigeria have struggled with tensions between nomadic herders and farmers who tussle over control of resources, water and land. In Jos, mainly Fulani  ... a peculiarly brutal tribe of Moslem herdsmen infesting Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and probably other places that are light on law and order and heavy on tribal identity...herders have been attacked and their cattle killed in some incidents, leading to reprisal attacks on ethnic Berom and Irigwe farmers in the region. Jos in Plateau state sits on the dividing line between Nigeria's mainly Christian south and mostly Moslem north. Most of the violence in wider Plateau state has been linked to a long-running sectarian tensions between mostly Christian farmers and Moslem herdsmen. Related: Plateau state: 2021-03-12 Suspected Fulani Jihadists Kill Father of Four Plateau state: 2018-06-26 Killing of nearly 100 people in Plateau ‘retaliatory’ Plateau state: 2018-03-11 At Least 5 Killed in Central Nigeria Related: Jos: 2021-06-14 Lapid to take lead over Bennett on foreign ties, peace with Arab states Jos: 2021-06-12 Yoga Instructor and 'Body Activist' Jessamyn Stanley Says White Supremacy has Polluted Yoga Jos: 2021-06-10 Released PMF emir Musleh is involved in killing demonstrators, officials to AFP Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-16 |
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