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Forty-two people killed in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on herders

Forty-two people killed in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on herders

Attacks in state of Benue latest wave of violence amid conflict between Fulani herders and Indigenous farmers

Forty-two people have been killed in four communities in central Nigeria in attacks blamed on itinerant herders, in the latest wave of violence that continues to upend life in the rural region.

Reuters reports quote a local official, Victor Omnin, the chair of the Gwer West local government area in Benue state, as saying 10 people were killed in a Saturday attack on the villages of Tyolaha and Tse-Ubiam. Thirty-two others were killed the following day in a separate attack in the nearby Ahume and Aondona villages.

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