50 at least people at the hands of gunmen during two attacks on village in Authorities in north-central Nigeria said Friday.
Robin Backow, Chairman of the Board of Otukpo local government Where the massacre took place, gunmen killed 47 people on Wednesday in Omougede village in Benue State. A day earlier, three more people killing in The same placeHe said.
Sweezy moaned with Benue State Police confirmed this attack They said the attackers opened fire in market. However, Sewuese mode death The death toll is at eight peopleincluding a police officer.
“The 46 dead were dead bodies of victims found and retrieve it. a lot people Still missing, so figure of The dead may be higher,” Paul Himba, security adviser to the governor of Benue state, told AFP.
motivation of The attacks were not immediate clear, though authorities said they believed both attacks were linked. While there was no claim of Responsibility, said the authorities fell under suspicion on local shepherds, who They clashed in the past with farmers over Land disputes in Northern Nigeria.
The farmers mostly blame the shepherds of Fulani origin, of graze their livestock on their farms and destroy their products. The shepherds insist that the lands were grazing roads first backed by law in 1965, five years after the country gained its independence.
Benue State, which is referred to as the “food basket of Nigeria” because of Abundant harvest one of The hardest hit in Decades-old clashes between farming communities and nomadic cattle herders across Nigeria’s northwestern and central regions.
Agricultural yields decreased from the state over years because of These frequent clashes, and increase the pressure on families in a region Where many poor and hungry.
Sectarian violence just one of Security challenges facing President-elect Paula Tinubu who won presidential ballot last A month marked by huge delays and accusations of vote forgery.
