At least a hundred people have been killed in an armed attack on a village in Nigeria’s Benue state, local media reported.
Dozens of people are still missing, while hundreds were injured and did not receive proper medical attention, a human rights group said.
Udeme Edet, a police spokesman in Benue, confirmed that there had been an attack in Yelevat, but did not specify how many people had been killed.
It remains unclear who is responsible for the killings, such attacks are common in Nigeria’s northern region, where local herdsmen and farmers often clash over limited access to land and water.
Farmers accuse herdsmen of herding their cattle onto their farms and destroying produce. The herders insist that the land is grazing land, which was first secured by law in 1965, 5 years after the country’s independence.