In Nigeria, at least 300 Christians massacred in Mangu County
"We started to hear gunshots in the night around midnight. My grandmother and the daughter who stays with me were killed, as well as my firstborn. My 5-year-old son was also seriously injured. He suffer a lot."
Since mid-May, Christians have been targeted in Nigeria's Mangu County. A thirty villages are concerned.
Morning Star News reports the words of a pastor, according to which 300 Christians died, 30 inhabitants were displaced, 000 churches and 28 houses destroyed and 2 cereal trailers were looted.
"The Christians killed in the village of Fungzai-Mangu by Fulani terrorists are mostly women and children; they were buried in a mass grave on Tuesday, May 16," said Reverend Jacob Dashop, President of the Provincial Council of the Church, after the attack on one of the villages.
A doctor describes the heavy crowds at his hospital. "Simple things like gloves, sutures, antibiotics, items for those with machete wounds, everything is sold out," he says.
A mother has lost her eldest son. She tells.
"We started to hear gunshots in the night around midnight. My grandmother and the daughter who stays with me were killed, as well as my firstborn. My 5-year-old son was also seriously injured. He suffer a lot."
"They are our neighbours," she continues, "our house is right next to theirs. They called my son by his name."
Another prays. "God, please meet them wherever they are is my prayer," she asks, "because if their hearts don't change, they will continue to do evil. I don't I've never known such mean people. It shocks me".
Rev. Stephen Baba Panya, President of ECWA, “calls on the government and all security agencies to immediately stop this ongoing massacre and its spread to other communities.”
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