Jos, Nigeria, April 16, 2025 (AFP) - None spared in Nigeria gun, machete massacre: survivors

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2025-04-16
People were hacked to death with machetes. Gunfire erupted everywhere, seemingly at random. No one was spared, including a nine-month-old baby. Two attacks in as many weeks in Nigeria's Plateau state have left more than 100 people dead in a region known for intercommunal conflict and land disputes between herders and farmers. But the back-to-back massacres -- more than 50 people killed in two districts -- represent a serious escalation, with auth......
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