7 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
At least 46 people have been killed in an attack allegedly carried out by ethnic Fulani herders in the north-central Nigerian state of Benue, the state’s governor-elect, Hyacinth Iormem Alia, has confirmed.
The governor, in statements to the Nigerian channel TVC News, has conveyed his condolences to relatives and survivors for the attack, perpetrated on Wednesday in the town of Entekpa Adoka, home to the Umodigi community and the usual scene of clashes between herders and farmers, when the umodigi were burying three others killed in a skirmish between the two sides.
At least 60 people have died in the last four weeks in this Nigerian state, according to estimates by the newspaper ‘Punch’.
The Nigerian government attributes attacks that have left 172 dead in 2022 and 104 dead so far this year to Fulani herdsmen, and has come to attribute more than 2,100 deaths to these groups in 2021 alone, a record since the beginning of records .
