Gunmen killed 30 people in Shonong village in the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, North-Central Nigeria on Monday, officials told Reuters.
Violence in central Nigeria is frequently fuelled by long-running land disputes between the Fulani and Berom, both often armed with automatic weapons.
A member of the State House of Assembly, Daniel Dem, told Reuters that gunmen stormed the majority-Berom Shonong village in the Riyom Local Government area in the early hours of the day, opening fire on residents and torching dozens of houses to the ground.
A spokesman for the military confirmed the attack, but said it was too early to give a death toll.
Thousands have been killed in the last three years in tit-for-tat clashes between rival ethnic groups in the “Middle Belt”, where the largely Christian South meets the mostly Muslim North in Africa’s most populous nation.
