At least 30 people have been killed in attacks that occurred in recent days in Nigeria in an area that has witnessed continued land conflicts between nomadic shepherds and urban farmers.
The French Press Agency quoted Ormen Torsar Victor, head of the local government in Gaweer West, Peno, as saying that the attacks took place in 3 villages between Friday and Sunday.
“At least 20 people were killed in the village of Undana on Sunday,” while 10 others were killed in another village.
“20 people were killed here in the village,” Ruthy Dan Sam, who lives in the Village of Undana, told the French Press Agency.
She added that children under the age of two were killed, noting that “the worst scene is a baby who was killed by a cleaver strike on his mouth.”
She pointed out that others were killed in neighboring villages, without being able to give any specific outcome.
For his part, Ormen Torsar Victor said that he and other residents buried 5 people, including a father and two of his sons, who were killed in another area “very close to a military base.”
This region has long witnessed conflicts between sponsors of the Fulani ethnic and urban farmers, most of whom accuse the shepherds of destroying their agricultural lands with their livestock.
