At least 30 dead after attacks in Nigeria
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00:00 At least 30 people have been killed and several others injured in a series of attacks around
00:06 Mangu town in Nigeria's central plateau state.
00:10 The attackers targeted several villages located on the borders of the local government areas
00:15 of Mangu and Barkanladi, said Joseph Gwankat, head of the Magavel Development Association,
00:21 or MDA.
00:23 Survivors reported that gunmen indiscriminately shot at people, including women and children,
00:28 and set fire to houses and property.
00:31 James Bot survived one of the attacks.
00:34 Yesterday now, when we were in the hospital, we heard voices.
00:39 In the morning, they came out to Bondiwa and Church opposite the hospital.
00:45 They were able to set fire, but people came out and extinguished the fire.
00:51 They came back again and extinguished the fire.
00:54 Then they came back again at that time, but they were not able to succeed.
00:59 The latest violence on Tuesday and Wednesday came after a Christmas Day attack in the area,
01:04 which left at least 140 people dead.
01:07 A dusk to dawn curfew was imposed on January 23.
01:11 The MDA said in a statement that it blamed the attack on herders and questioned why troops
01:16 deployed by the federal government to the area didn't intervene.
01:20 A Nigerian defense spokesperson said the military remains neutral following allegations of partisanship
01:26 in the conflict, adding that troops responded professionally.
01:31 The latest attacks come amid a surge of violence in the plateau, which has seen repeated clashes
01:36 between nomadic herders and local farming communities.