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At least 100 people were killed in weapons attacks in a village in North-Central Nigeria, Amnesty International claimed.
Human Rights Group Branch Nigeria The said attack took place between Friday night and Saturday morning in Yelewata, a community in the Guma area in the state of Benue.
“Many families are locked up and burned in their bedroom,” the group said in a post in X. “So many corpses were burned without recognition.”
It is said that hundreds of people were injured and without adequate medical treatment, while other dozens were lost.
A police spokesman in Benue confirmed that the attack occurred in Yelewata but did not determine how many people were killed.
Amnesty noted in a statement that there was “escalation of alarming attacks throughout the state of the benue where armed people have committed murder with total impunity”.
“The failure of Nigeria’s authority to stem violence is the cost of life and livelihoods of people, and without immediate action, many more life is lost,” he added.
Last month, an armed man, who was believed to be a shepherd, killed at least 20 people in the Gwest West area in Benue.
In April, at least 40 people were killed in the neighboring highlands.
Benue is in the ‘middle belt’ of Nigeria, an area where the majority of North Muslims meet the southern which is mostly Christians.
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Attacks are common in northern Nigeria, where shepherds and local farmers often clash with limited access to land and water.
Farmers accuse the shepherds, most of them come from Fulani, past their livestock in their agriculture and destroy their products.
The shepherd insisted that the land was the first grazing route supported by the law in 1965, five years after the country gained its independence.
