Fulani herdsmen carrying guns have attacked a community in Niger state shooting about 20 people dead in yet another bloody attack. Nigerian herdsmen armed with guns, reportedly killed 20 farmers and injured eight other people in a mosque in Niger state over the weekend, police said on Monday. Fighting over land use between semi-nomadic cattle herders and more settled communities, claims hundreds of lives a year in the middle belt and in the north of Nigeria. Last year, the government said preventing attacks was a security priority.
Bala Elkana, a spokesman for Niger state police, said the attack happened at about 05:00 a.m. (0400 GMT) on Saturday at Epogi community, in the Mokwa area of the state.
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“It was a clash between farmers and herders which had been initially handled but some herders felt unsatisfied and … they launched a reprisal attack on some villagers praying in a mosque,”
Elkana said. Three people had been arrested, he said.Nigeria’s poor transport and communications infrastructure can slow the speed at which reports of events in some rural communities are passed on.
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