Three nomadic herdsmen from Nigeria’s Muslim Fulani community have been killed in a Christian village near the city of Jos. The men were killed late on Saturday in the area of the mainly Christian village of Tusung in the Barki Ladi region, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Jos, when they were reportedly looking for lost cattle.
“From nowhere youths suspected to be Berom numbering about 500 appeared and started unleashing havoc on the three Fulani men and immediately they died,” AFP quoted Col. Kayode Ogundele as telling another senior army official in a cell phone message.
The victims were then “burnt, buried in shallow graves and later exhumed by the assailants themselves,” said the colonel who directs a military operation against communal and religious violence in Plateau state.
Clashes are commonplace between the mainly Christian Beroms and the Muslim Hausa and Fulani, especially in Jos, the capital of Plateau state, and its environs.
Movement is somewhat restricted depending on one’s ethnic group in Plateau state — which lies on the limit of Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.
Plagued by sectarian tension, the region saw a hike in violence in March when about 500 Beroms were massacred in the village of Dogo Nahawa.
Some deemed the incident an act of revenge following the mass murder of over 300 Muslims earlier this year near the same city.
Source: Press TV