Death toll in weekend attacks in central Nigerian state of Plateau rises to 113

The death toll in weekend attacks in the central Nigerian state of Plateau has risen to 113, in a region where clashes between herders and farmers are common.

More than 300 were also injured in those attacks. It is the worst outbreak of violence in Plateau since May.

The acting chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State Monday Kassah



said, the attacks were well-coordinated, and about 20 different communities were attacked by the bandits. Kassah did not say who was responsible for the attacks. Plateau is one of several ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland states known as Nigeria’s Middle Belt, where inter-communal conflict has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years.