Family Of Four Killed In Machete Attack In Plateau - Reuters
A family of four people was killed in a machete attack in Nigeria’s ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state on Wednesday, the state government’s spokesman said.
Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power between local people and migrants from other areas. These often take the form of sectarian strife between the state’s Christian and Muslim communities.
A series of bombings by Islamist militants across Nigeria on Christmas Day killed over two dozen people, raising fears that they are trying to provoke a sectarian civil war.
The attacks included a bombing at a church in the Plateau state capital of Jos which killed no one, although a policeman died in a subsequent shootout with militants.
“This attack is regrettable coming at a time when the state government has put … measures for security (in place),” state government spokesman Abraham Yiljap told local broadcaster Plateau Radio Television. He gave no further details.
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