May 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Around 40 people died in an attack carried out late on Monday against two villages located in the Nigerian state of Plateau (center), as confirmed by the authorities, amid a deterioration in security in the area and after an attack perpetrated the weekend that left more than 20 dead.
Sources cited by the Nigerian newspaper ‘The Guardian’ have indicated that unidentified armed assailants, presumably members of a Fulani community militia, broke into the villages of Fungzai and Kubwat, where they killed dozens of people and set fire to several houses.
The Governor of Plateau, Simon Lalong, has confirmed the event and has revealed orders to the security forces to arrest those responsible, while expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.
Attacks in Nigeria, previously focused on the northeastern part of the country — where Boko Haram and its splinter, Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) operate — have spread in recent years to other parts of the north and northwest, making alarm bells are going off due to the possible expansion of these terrorist and criminal networks, many of which live off the kidnapping of students.
These groups of “bandits”, as they are usually referred to by the Nigerian government, are responsible for dozens of kidnappings and attacks in recent months, especially against educational centers and transport, with the aim of obtaining ransom payments.
