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At least 100 people have been killed in a gun attack in a village in north-central Nigeria, Amnesty International has claimed.<\/p>\n

The human rights group’s branch in Nigeria<\/a> <\/strong>said the attack occurred between Friday evening and Saturday morning in Yelewata, a community in the Guma area of Benue state.<\/p>\n

“Many families were locked up and burnt inside their bedrooms,” the group said in a post on X. “So many bodies were burnt beyond recognition.”<\/p>\n

It said hundreds of people were injured and were without adequate medical care, while dozens of others were missing.<\/p>\n

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A police spokesperson in Benue confirmed that an attack took place in Yelewata but did not specify how many people had died.<\/p>\n

Amnesty noted in a statement that there had been an “alarming escalation of attacks across Benue state where gunmen have been on a killing spree with utter impunity”.<\/p>\n

“The Nigerian authorities’ failure to stem the violence is costing people’s lives and livelihoods, and without immediate action many more lives may be lost,” it added.<\/p>\n

Last month, gunmen, believed to be herders, killed at least 20 people in the Gwer West area of Benue.<\/p>\n

In April, at least 40 people were killed in the neighbouring state of Plateau.<\/p>\n

Benue is in Nigeria’s ‘middle belt’, a region where the majority Muslim north meets the largely Christian south.<\/p>\n

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Attacks are common in Nigeria’s northern regions, where local herders and farmers often clash over limited access to land and water.<\/p>\n

Farmers accuse the herders, mostly of Fulani origin, of grazing their livestock on their farms and destroying their produce.<\/p>\n

The herders insist that the lands are grazing routes that were first backed by law in 1965, five years after the country gained its independence.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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