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Nigeria: Fulani terrorists murder 11 Christians in Plateau state, “the terrorists are known to the Nigerian government”

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Continuing a years-long genocidal campaign against Christians in northern Nigeria, radicalized Fulani herdsmen murdered people, including two children, in an attack in Plateau state on Sunday, October 1, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Well over 50,000 Nigerian Christians have been murdered by Islamic terrorists since 2009.

Sunday’s mass murder took place in Du village, in Bassa County’s Kwall District, MSN reports. Aside from those killed, a number of other people were hospitalized with injuries from the attack.

In a press statement, Davidson Malison, spokesman of the Irigwe Development Association (IDA), said, “The Fulani militias stormed the community at about 8:10 p.m., positioned themselves and sprayed bullets on the bodies of innocent Christians who were asleep. To prove the maximum act of wickedness by these terrorists, children of 9 and 11 years were among those killed.”

Those slaughtered have been identified as Shara Danjuma, 9; Williams Danjuma, 11; Wala Boyi, 17; Yohanna Zehwhie, 35; Avu Goji,18; Tingwie Nko, 38; Afiniki Sunday, 25; and Gani Doglas, 28. Wounded were Tini Thomas, 14; Rondo Peter, 18; Boma Sunday, 45; Geoffrey David, 19; and Joseph Monday, 25, MSN reports.

Joining church leaders who have beseeched the Nigerian government to take action against the relentless murderous assault on the country’s Christian population, Malison attested: “The terrorists are known to the Nigerian government, and they are not ghosts nor invisible. They had made threatening statements, particularly to our communities, in the recent past. This is no doubt the continuation of the destruction of lives and the ceaseless attempts to annihilate Christians of Rigwe ethnic extraction by terrorists and armed herdsmen has kept on persisting.”