NIGERIA: Extremists kill 10 in Easter massacre

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Suspected Fulani militants in Nigeria’s Middle Belt struck on Easter Monday (1^st April), massacring 10 Christians including a pregnant woman and her unborn baby.

The attack took place across three communities in St Thomas the Apostle Parish in Bokkos, Plateau State.

Details of the devastating atrocity emerged this week during an exclusive ACN interview with Father Andrew Dewan, director of communications in Pankshin Diocese, where the violence took place.

He said: “Last week there were violent attacks in [three communities in the parish]. Ten people were killed and a pregnant woman had her stomach slit open. The baby was not spared.

“There is a pattern to these attacks, and they’re an ongoing feature of living in the region. They might be linked to the attacks over Christmas.”

In a four-day killing spree beginning on 23^rd December, suspected Fulani militants attacked 26 villages in Bokkos claiming the lives of more than 300 Christians.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates there to be 3.1 million IDPs across Nigeria, fuelled by insurgency in the North-East and extremist Fulani herdsmen in the Middle Belt.

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