More “peaceful Muslims” doing their thing, which is killing; this time in Nigeria. Women and children, they don’t care, they’ll kill anybody – hell, they take their own lives don’t they?
Everywhere these people (Muslims) set foot, one can bet there will be violence and unnecessary suffering… TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – The wife of a pastor, his two children and a grandson were among eight people killed in fresh sectarian violence in religiously-divided central Nigeria, the clergyman said on Sunday.
Fulani Muslims launched the overnight attack on Mazzah, near Jos, early Saturday, killing eight people with machetes and burning seven houses and a church in the latest religious clashes.
An AFP correspondent saw seven bodies at the scene and one in hospital.
“I managed to escape to a farmland near my house, but my family was not fortunate enough to escape too. My wife, daughter, son and grandson have been killed,” Reverend Nuhu Dawat of the Church of Christ in Nigeria told AFP.
Dawat said his wife and children were killed in the house while his grandson died of machete wounds on the way to the hospital, refusing to disclose their age.
“I leave the matter in the hand of God,” he said.
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kingsley Umoh said the attackers entered Mazzah between 1:30 am and 5:00 am, shooting sporadically in the air to lure sleeping residents outside their homes before they were killed.
He said troop reinforcements had been deployed to Mazzah, some 14 kilometres (nine miles) from Jos, the capital of central Plateau State, to prevent the violence from escalating.
A senior state official, Gyang Pwajok, described the attack on the mainly Christian village as an “act of terrorism”.
Plateau State lies in the so-called middle belt between the predominantly Muslim north and the mainly Christian south.
Jos has long been the centre of ethnic and religious violence in a country whose 150 million population is divided almost equally between Christians and Muslims.
In March, Muslim herdsmen from the Fulani and Hausa ethnic groups launched attacks on five Christian Berom villages near the city, killing more than 500 people, state officials say.
Local rights groups say 1,500 people have died in inter-communal violence in the Jos region since the start of this year alone.
