ICC Note: At least 13 Christians have been murdered in recent Fulani attacks on villages in Kaduna State, Nigeria. These attacks targeted notoriously Christian villages, resulting in the death of these Christians and scattering of Church congregations. The Fulani carried out these attacks during the first three days of August, taking the Christian farmers by surprise. Aside from the killing, they also burned homes and church buildings, displacing many of the villagers. The Fulani herdsmen have terrorized Kaduna State for years, targeting the predominantly Christian villages with their violence.

02/11/2016, Kaduna, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked a cluster of predominantly Christian villages in Kaduna state last week, killing at least 13 Christians and scattering members of three churches, area sources said.

A survivor of the attacks told Morning Star News that the herdsmen killed two Christian women in Ninte village in the Jema’a Local Government Area (LGA) of the north-central state on Aug. 1, and that she knew of eight Christians killed in Gada Biyu on Aug. 2. Local newspapers reported nine people were killed in Gada Biyu, with an additional two men killed in Akwa’a on Aug. 3.

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