On March 7, 2010 hundreds of Christians were killed in three farming villages near Jos. The victims included many women and children killed with machetes by rampaging Fulani herdsmen.

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On March 7, 2010 hundreds of Christians were killed in three farming villages near Jos. The victims included many women and children killed with machetes by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. About 75 houses were also burned. State Information Commissioner Gregory Yenlong confirmed that about 500 persons were killed in the attacks, which took place mainly in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat villages. The assailants reportedly came on foot from a neighboring state; security forces had been alerted of a possible attack on the villages but did not act beforehand. Bishop Andersen Bok, national coordinator of the Plateau State Elders Christian Fellowship, along with group Secretary General Musa Pam, described the attacks as yet another “jihad and provocation on Christians.” The Christian leaders said in a statement, “Eyewitnesses say the Hausa Fulani Muslim militants chanting ‘Allah Akbar,’ broke into houses, cutting human beings, including children and women, with their knives.”

Muslim Fulani herdsmen unleashed more horrific violence on two Christian villages in Plateau state on March 17, 2010 killing 13 persons, including a pregnant woman and children. In attacks presumably over disputed property but with a level of violence characteristic of jihadist method and motive, men in military camouflage and others in customary clothing also burned 20 houses. A survivor of the attack whose 90-year-old mother was killed in her room, said the villagers were awakened by gunshots from the Muslim herdsmen who were barricading their houses.

In December, 2010 the Islamic sect Boko Haram exploded several bombs in Christian areas including one at a Catholic church that killed scores of people. At the same time, the group killed a Baptist pastor and five other Christians on Christmas Eve in northern Nigeria.

The Boko Haram members reportedly first stormed the church in two vehicles and detonated bombs that shattered the gate of the worship centre and killed the security guard. Danjuma, who survived the attack on the Baptist church, said “they hacked the two choir members using knives and a petrol bomb before heading to the pastor’s residence, where he was killed.”