At least six Christians in central Nigeria were killed by militant Fulani herdsmen on March 10, just a day after another believer was reportedly stabbed to death for objecting to their grazing cattle on his farmland. The herdsmen, who invaded predominantly Christian Farin Dutse village in Nasarawa state’s Nasarawa county, set homes ablaze, said local resident Esau Ezekiel.
‘Many Christian villagers have been killed, six corpses have so far been recovered and many houses set ablaze,’ Ezekiel told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News (CDI-MSN). Please pray for the bereaved and injured and all those who have lost their homes.
Ezekiel said that the Fulani attacked in the early hours of the morning as villagers were sleeping. He said that the previous day a herdsman had led his cattle on to a farm belonging to a Christian while villagers were attending a church worship service.
‘The herdsman was spotted cutting down branches from one of the mango trees on the farm and feeding his cattle with the leaves,’ he said. ‘The farmer asked him to lead his cattle out of the farm, but instead of complying with the instructions of the farmer to stop his cattle from destroying crops on the farm, the herdsman stabbed the Christian farmer to death.’
He added that this man then led the other Fulanis in the attack the next day.
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