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At least six Muslim Fulani nomads were slain in a weekend attack by suspected Christian Berom militias in northern Nigeria's Kaduna State, a pastoralists' leader said on Tuesday.

Police confirmed the Sunday night raid but said that only three people were killed.

A gang of Beroms armed with guns and axes raided a Fulani settlement in Kauru, a village bordering the violence-wracked Plateau state, according to Saleh Momaleh, the head of the Kaduna branch of Pastoral Resolve (PARE), the umbrella body of nomads in West Africa.

"The Berom militia came through the bush from , Plateau State and launched an overnight attack on Fulani settlement, killing six people including a woman and carting away a large number of cows which we are yet to quantify," Momaleh told AFP on the phone from Kaduna.

He said dozens of houses were torched, displacing around 600 residents.

Police maintained that only three people were killed.

"We are aware of an incident between farmers and nomads in Kauru where three people were killed," Kaduna state police commissioner Mohammed Tambari Yabo said.

The violence was contained and investigations have been opened, Yabo said.

Nigeria's central Plateau State has long been the centre of ethno-religious violence in a country whose 140 million population is divided almost equally between Christians and Muslims.

In the past week sectarian tension has been simmering in nearby Muslim-dominated Bauchi State following the murder of a pastor and his wife as Christians called for revenge.

In what appeared to be a reprisal for earlier violence, last March herdsmen from the mainly Muslim Fulani clan launched a wave of attacks on five Christian villages, slaughtering more than 500 people, according to state officials

How tru is this story.

Gold-mind:

How tru is this story.

Its just a write up.

Source please or retract this garbage. The part of Plateau that borders Kaduna is not berom dominated. Try again.

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