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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan and agencies

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

cattle in a field
Herders graze a field with their livestock on the outskirts of Zaria, in Nigeria’s northern state of Kadun. Photograph: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters

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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