At least 40 people killed by Gunman in Nigeria, says President of the country

Abuja, Nigeria – On Monday, Nigeria said that at least 40 people were killed when the Muslim attackers, he believes that the Battlefields were attacked by the Christian agricultural community in the north-central part of the country in the growing wave of violence in the West African country.

President Bol Tinbu also said that he ordered an investigation in the late Sunday night for an attack on the winter community, expanding condolences to the victims and their families.

“I sent security agencies to investigate this crisis thoroughly and identify those responsible for orchestrating these violent works,” Tinbubu said in a statement late Monday.

Amnesty International said that the victims, who included children and the elderly, took away the surprise and could not escape from the Naughty.

Such attacks have become common in this part of the most populated country of Africa, where Gunmen – usually pistols from Fulan, the Muslim tribe – the safety failure to start deadly raids in the farmers in the fight over land resources.

According to Andy Yakubu, the local resident, the attacker on Sunday on Sunday nights, also destroyed and robbed Zika community homes, which is located in the Bass Staba area,

Yakubu said he saw the bodies after the attack and that the number of dead could exceed 50 years. No one has been arrested so far, he added.

Fulani were accused of performing mass murders across the northwestern and central region, where a decade-long conflict in access to land and leads further aggravate the sectan division between Christians and Muslims.

Amnesty says it is between 2023. and 2026. until 202. February, 1,336 people in a plateaous state – state that the measures undertaken by Tinubuine administration to combat violence.

Samuel Jugo, Irigwe’s spokesman, ethnic organization in Bassa, stated in the statement in a statement that at least 75 Irigwe people, the Christian ethnic groups were killed by 2024. Years.

Jugo said that despite the implementation of additional security forces to the area, violence still appears and described the latest attack as “very provocative, disturbing and undeserving”.

In May 2024. Armed men attacked the villages on the plateau, killing at least 40 people during late-night raids.

Violence against terrestrial resources in the north-central Nigeria is separated from battles with Boko Haram, Nigeria by domestic jihadis, which in 2009. took weapons of combating Western education and imposed their radical version of Islamic law. That conflict, USA African longest fight with militantShe also spilled in Nigeria’s northern neighbors.