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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chinedu Asadu

At least 140 villagers killed by suspected herders in attack on remote villages in Nigeria

All photos Jane Hahn/Washington Post

At least 140 people have been killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, survivors and officials said.

It was the latest of such mass killings this year blamed on the west African nation’s farmer-herder crisis.

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