Multiple reports on new attacks on a village near Jos where “suspected Muslim gangs” burned down homes of Christians, and also a report of a bomb injuring three in Jos.
Nigeria: Fresh Crisis Erupts Near Jos
— This Day reports:
— “Plateau State is once again in the news following an attack on a village near Jos by suspected Fulani herdsmen in the early hours of Sunday.”
— “The attackers targeted the homes of some officials in Kura Jenta, a Berom village some 30 kilometers south of Jos.”
— “The officials were said to be former government workers and a brother to a local government chairman of Jos South Local Government Area (LGA).”
— “No life was lost because of the timely intervention of a police patrol. But three houses and six vehicles were torched.”
— “The military authorities said no arrest had been made. It was also gathered that efforts are being made to track down those behind the incident.”
— “One group of attackers was said to have fired indiscriminately from one section while the other group set fire on the two affected compounds. They were, however, overpowered by the Special Task Force (STF) troops.”
Nigeria: New Attacks in Jos on Christians
— New attacks in troubled Nigerian ethnic hotspot
— AFP reports: “Suspected Muslim gangs burned homes in a Christian village near the Nigerian city of Jos, which has been at the centre of tit-for-tat attacks this year which have left hundreds dead, officials said.”
— “The suspected ethnic Fulani attackers targeted homes belonging to three top officials in the ethnic Berom village of Kura Jenta, about 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of Jos, residents said.”
— “‘Apparently the attackers were on a murder mission, they wanted to use the same tactics used in Dogo Nahawa, setting homes ablaze and then waiting for people to come out to be killed,’ a local cleric Raymond Gboum told AFP.”