At least 100 people killed by armed men in the Nigeria North Center, said the rights group

Abuja, Nigeria – At least 100 people were killed in a gun attack against a village in the north of the Benue North State, announced Amnesty International Nigeria on Saturday.

The attack took place between Friday late and the early hours of Saturday in Yelewata, a community of the Guma region of the State, said the rights group in a Facebook article.

Dozens of people are still missing and hundreds have been injured and without adequate medical care, he added.

“Many families have been locked up and burned in their rooms. So many bodies have been burned beyond recognition,” said Amnesty.

Graphic videos and photographs on social media platforms have shown what seemed to be corpses and houses burned following the attack.

Udeme Edet, Benue police spokesman, confirmed that an attack took place in Yelewata, but did not specify how many people had been killed.

Although it was not clear that was responsible for murders, such attacks are common in the Northern Nigerian region where local farmers and farmers often come up against limited access to land and water.

Farmers accuse the breeders, mainly of Peul origin, of grazing their cattle on their farms and of destroying their products. Breeders insist that land is grazing roads that were supported by law in 1965, five years after the country has acquired its independence.

Last month, armed men, suspected of being breeders, killed at least 20 people in the Gwer West region in Benue. In April, at least 40 people were killed in the neighboring state of the plateau.

Benue’s state governor Gyacinth Alia sent a delegation to Yelewat to support those close to the victims.