Armed Muslim extremists stormed two churches in Taraba state on 19 October and killed 31 people as they worshipped, a church leader said.
Two pastors, one pastor’s son, and 28 other Christians were slain in the attacks in the villages of Gindin Waya and Sondi, said the Revd Caleb Ahema, president of the Christian Reformed Church of Christ in Nigeria. Ahema said the onslaught was the seventh attack on Christian communities in Wukari Local Government Area since February.
‘The attack on Christians in Taraba state is a planned genocide against Christians by Islamic insurgents [Boko Haram] who have invaded the southern part of the state, inhabited mostly by Christians, since February’, he said.
