Ten people in central Nigeria were killed over two
days in violence linked to cattle grazing, part of a months-long crisis that
has heightened religious tensions, sources said late Thursday.
In central Plateau state, military taskforce
spokesman Major Adam Umar said eight deaths were recorded from tit-for-tat
attacks in the rural districts of Bokkos and Bassa on Tuesday and Wednesday.
A Fulani nomadic herder was attacked and killed by
sedentary farmers from the Ropp tribe while he was digging out sand to make mud
bricks for a home.
“In retaliation members of the Fulani community
attacked and killed two persons, including a woman, from the Ropp community,”
Umar said.
In a separate incident on Tuesday, Umar said, five
people were killed in violence between Fulani herders and ethnic Irigwe farmers
in Gero village in Bassa district, 80 kilometres (50 miles) away. In another
incident overnight Wednesday, a policeman and a farmer were killed in the
eastern-central state of Benue, in an attack on Guma district that was blamed
on Fulani herdsmen. The clashes occurred a day after livestock belonging to the
herders were stolen which they blamed on the farmers.
Tensions have boiled over access to land and
resources, escalating into a rift that has deepened along nominally religious
lines.
The violence has left approximately 100 dead this
year in a conflict now more bloody than the Boko Haram jihadist insurgency that
President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is increasingly being criticised
for failing to contain.
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