At least 100 people have been killed in an assault by gunmen on a village in Nigeria’s central Benue state, Amnesty International Nigeria mentioned Saturday (June 14, 2025).
The assault happened from late Friday into the early hours of Saturday in the village of Yelewata, the group mentioned in a put up on social media platform X.
“Many people are still missing…dozens injured and left without adequate medical care. Many families were locked up and burnt inside their bedrooms,” the put up added.
Benue is in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, a area the place the bulk Muslim North meets the largely Christian South.
The area faces competitors over land use, with conflicts between herders, who search grazing land for his or her cattle, and farmers, who want arable land for cultivation. These tensions are sometimes worsened by overlapping ethnic and non secular divisions.
Last month, at least 42 people have been shot useless by suspected herders in a sequence of weekend assaults throughout Gwer West district in Nigeria’s central Benue state.
Since 2019, the clashes have claimed greater than 500 lives in the area and compelled 2.2 million to depart their properties, in keeping with analysis agency SBM Intelligence.
Published – June 15, 2025 08:25 am IST
