 Fulani herdsmen and other terrorists killed eight Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, and wounded five others on October 1, according to local Morning Star News sources.
The raiders attacked Du village, in Bassa County’s Kwall District, with two children among those slain and the wounded requiring hospital treatment, said Davidson Malison, spokesman of the Irigwe Development Association (IDA), in a press statement.
‘The Fulani militias stormed the community at about 8.10pm … and sprayed bullets on the bodies of innocent Christians who were asleep,’ Malison said, adding that children aged nine and 11 years old were among the dead.
He called on the Nigerian Government urgently to task security personnel to arrest those responsible.
‘The terrorists are known to the Nigerian Government, and they are not ghosts nor invisible,’ he said. ‘They had made threatening statements particularly to our communities in [the] recent past. We’re not only saddened by this unfortunate development and occurrence but completely depressed and broken-hearted.’
The attack had enveloped the local community in ‘tears, sorrow and sadness’, he added.
In Plateau state’s Atuhun Panyam village in Mangu County three Christians were reported to have been killed on September 27. In a press statement area community leaders Longse Jokle and Joshua Gufwam expressed sadness over continued attacks on Christians in the state.
Jokle and Gufwam, president and secretary respectively of the Panyam District Development Association, called on the country’s security agencies to halt attacks on Christians in Plateau.
‘We condemn the killing of the three Christian farmers and call on security agencies to go after the killers,’ they said. Release Int.
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