{"id":30341,"date":"2026-03-30T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=30341"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:48:56","slug":"gunmen-kill-13-in-nigerias-plateau-state-attack","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/gunmen-kill-13-in-nigerias-plateau-state-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 13 in Nigeria&#8217;s Plateau state attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Gunmen attacked a university community in Nigeria\u2019s central Plateau state on Sunday night, killing \u200bat least 13 people, residents and local officials \u200csaid, the latest violence in a region long plagued by deadly farmer-herder conflicts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Violence in central Nigeria, also known as Middle \u200bBelt, is often painted as ethno-religious between \u200bmainly Muslim Fulani herders and Christian farmers. But \u2060many experts and politicians say climate change and expanding \u200bagriculture are creating competition for land, leading to conflict, \u200bregardless of faith or ethnicity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Residents said the gunmen arrived in the Gari Ya Waye community of Angwan Rukuba district and \u200bshot at people indiscriminately.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Plateau state government said the \u200bgunmen were unknown and imposed a 48-hour curfew in the district. \u200cThe \u2060University of Jos suspended examinations due to start on Monday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cPeople were here in the evening and unfortunately, wicked terrorists came and attacked our people. We have \u200bcounted scores of \u200bpeople who \u2060are now dead and then so many others are also in the hospital \u200breceiving treatment,\u201d said Paul Mancha, a resident \u200band \u2060chairperson of the youth council in Plateau.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>United States President Donald Trump last November redesignated Nigeria &#8220;a country of particular concern&#8221; saying \u2060Christians \u200bwere being targeted and authorities \u200bwere failing to protect them, which the Nigerian government denies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22924,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-30341","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Residents said the gunmen arrived in the Gari Ya Waye community of Angwan Rukuba district and \u200bshot at people indiscriminately.","published_date":"","news_description":"Residents said the gunmen arrived in the Gari Ya Waye community of Angwan Rukuba district and \u200bshot at people indiscriminately.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30342,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/30341\/revisions\/30342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=30341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}