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  • 90 PEOPLE CONFIRMED DEAD IN PLETAEU VILLAGE MASSACRE
  • At least 90 people had been killed during attacks on
    villages in Gashik District of Barkinladi Local
    government area of central north Nigeria's Plateau
    State by Sunday afternoon, security sources and
    Xinhua reporters on ground said. In a brief text message to Xinhua, the security
    sources said 50 burnt bodies were uncovered
    in the early hours of Sunday in a COCIN church
    in Matsai village. Xinhua's reporters in the restive city of Jos
    said 20 persons were killed Sunday afternoon
    at the mass burial site of victims on Saturday
    attack, including a serving Senator, Gyang
    Dantong, representing Plateau north and the
    majority leader of the State House of Assembly, Gyang Fulani. Before he was killed on Sunday, the late Fulani told
    Xinhua on Saturday that at least 20 people were killed
    on Friday night in Barkinladi by yet to be identified
    gunmen, who invaded nine villages of the locality. "Dantong, Fulani and other unidentified officials were
    all murdered today during a mass burial for scores of
    people killed by unknown gunmen," the security
    source said. Dan Manjan, a legislative aide to the senator, who
    escaped the attack said scores of injured victims are
    still receiving treatment in hospitals across the state. A Xinhua reporter said the Berom people leaving in
    Jos have taken over major roads in the state. Plateau State is situated in Nigeria's middle belt where
    the Muslim-dominated north and the Christian-majority
    south meet. It has seen years of ethnic tensions and is
    a major potential flash point ahead of the April
    presidential elections. The state capital Jos was plunged in a pool of blood on
    March 7, 2010, when members of local Muslim and
    Christian communities fought each other in revenge
    for previous killings. The state has recently witnessed some bomb blasts
    and constant rifts between Berom and Fulani
    herdsmen, with many, especially women and
    children, murdered in cold blood in the state.

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