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“Herdsmen Kill Three Christians in Plateau State, Nigeria,” Morning Star News, November 8, 2024:
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Sunday (Nov. 3) ambushed and killed a Christian in Plateau state, Nigeria, a week after a Christian and his mother in the Jos North area were slain, sources said.
In Daika village, Mangu County south of Jos, 30-year-old Fwangshak Lesun was ambushed and shot death on Sunday as he rode his motorcycle on an area highway, sources said.
“Fwangshak Lesun was returning to Daika from Mangu town at about 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, 3 November, when he was ambushed by armed herdsmen who shot and killed him,” area resident Christopher Luka told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News.
Lesun’s family recovered his body near the Mangu-Daika bridge and buried it on Monday (Nov. 4) in Daika, Luka said.
In the Jos North area, “Muslim Fulani herdsmen” on Oct. 27 just after 1 a.m. attacked the home of a Christian family in Hwollaza village off the Jos-Zaria highway, killing a woman and her adult son and wounding a third member of the family who was in critical condition at a clinic in Jos, said area resident John Dauda….
