Attack Armed Forces launched on Friday night on Saturday claimed life to dozens of people in the community Lambto Nigeriawhere violence does not stop escalating in recent months, due to disputes between mainly Muslim breeders and mainly Christian farmers, for controlling land and water resources.

“Things are very serious, many people were killed, probably more than a hundred people, and numerous houses were set on fire,” a resident of this community in Benno, Amiene Liafa Hir. Other residents gave a similar report.

The State of Benou, like the neighboring State of Plato, have turned into the theater of perpetual conflicts between mainly Muslim breeders of Pel (or Fulni) and mainly Christian farmers.

“Armed Forces allegedly attacked and killed at least 100 residents in Gelouata early on Saturday morning,” Dermen Peter Terfa, a young community official, told the French Agency. “They also set fire to many houses,” he added.

Another resident, Christian Msuga, said he was able to escape when the attack took place, but his sister and his brother -in -law were “burnt alive” and “about 100 people are dead”.

For more than a hundred dead, the Amnesty International Branch in Nigeria also spoke.

However, according to a spokesman for the Governor of Beno, Tresos Koula, “the death of 45 people has been confirmed.” Police have confirmed that an attack was committed, but have not published any reports of the victims so far.

Dises on land and water between communities of farmers and nomadic breeders in the area often take a religious or national dimension.

The monopoly of land, political and economic tensions between farmers and those who consider “foreign” farmers, as well as sermons of Muslims and Christian priests who have strengthened fire, have further aggravated the situation in the central sector of the most populous country in recent years. Lands available for crops or breeding flocks are also increasingly reduced by climate change and expansion of communities.

Two weeks ago, at least 25 people were killed by gunmen in the same state, Benu. A series of massacres that still remain unharmed left behind 150 dead in the states of Plato and Beno in April.

According to a recent amnesty report, only 6,896 people have been killed in Beno and 2,600 in the last two years.

Testimonies gathered by the NGO in the context of her research spoke of executions with concise procedures, mass forced displacements, mainly women and children, and systematic disasters of basic infrastructure, including schools, health centers and wells.