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“Herdsmen Injure Four Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, August 7, 2024:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Predominantly Muslim Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (Aug. 6) attacked Christian farmers in Plateau state, wounding four of them, sources said. In Lwa village of Bachi District, Riyom County, three of the Christians were attacked as they worked on their farms, while one was ambushed as he tried to escape, said Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, president of the Berom Youth Moulders Association in a press statement. Mwantiri said the Christians were able to identify some of the 20 heavily armed assailants as local Muslim Fulani herdsmen living in settlements near the predominantly Christian villages of Lwa, Fan, Shonong, Dum, Rachid and Bangai. “The farmers were working on their farms around the Seheng area of the village, and as a result of the attack on the farmers, four of them sustained varying degrees of injuries,” Mwantiri said. “One of the Christian victims, Caleb Bachen, 32, was shot and wounded. One of his hands was fractured and shattered.” Bachen said from his health center bed that he was working when he heard sounds of gunfire from a nearby farm…. Nigeria remained the deadliest place in the world to follow Christ, with 4,118 people killed for their faith from Oct. 1, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2023, according to Open Doors’ 2024 World Watch List (WWL) report. More kidnappings of Christians than in any other country also took place in Nigeria, with 3,300….
