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Fresh outrage has trailed another deadly attack in Benue State, where suspected Fulani herdsmen reportedly killed several people, including children, during an overnight assault on Anwule community in Ohimini Local Government Area.
The attackers, said to be armed with machetes and rifles, also set homes and the largest Catholic church in the area ablaze after security forces withdrew.
According to eyewitness accounts shared on social media, the assailants returned on Tuesday evening, continuing their rampage only hours after troops departed.
Residents said at least four people had been killed, with several others missing.
The assault has deepened fears in the Middle Belt, a region already ravaged by herder–farmer violence that has claimed more than 6,800 lives since 2024 and displaced over half a million people this year alone.
No official statement had been issued by either the Nigerian Army or Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, leaving survivors to recover bodies and plead for urgent intervention.
The attack comes amid renewed international concern over religiously motivated killings in Nigeria.
Only days earlier, United States President Donald Trump had warned that his administration would halt all aid to Nigeria and consider decisive military action if the government continued to allow what he described as the “genocide of Christians” by Islamic terrorists and bandits targeting women and children.
Christian leaders and human rights groups have repeatedly accused Nigerian authorities of failing to protect rural communities from relentless attacks that often coincide with worship hours or church gatherings.
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