Nigeria Christian Report: Pastor Among Four Killed in Benue Market Attack as Plateau Killings Continue

Left: The nephew of Plateau Christian leader Barrister Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, killed by Fulani herdsmen in Riyom LGA on Nov. 7, 2026. Right: A villager wounded by gunfire in the Nov. 6 attack on Larkas, Mangu LGA. (Photo courtesy of Paul)

Between Nov. 3 and Nov. 8, 2026, attacks on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Plateau and Benue states killed at least 11 people, according to field reporting from Nigeria. The field report attributes the attacks to Fulani herdsmen.

A pastor was among four people killed when gunmen attacked a market in Benue’s Logo Local Government Area (LGA). In Plateau, attacks in Mangu, Riyom and Barkin Ladi LGAs killed at least seven people, among them a soldier and the nephew of a Christian leader.

On Nov. 3, at about 5 p.m., gunmen attacked Abeda Shitile in the Gaambe-Tiev area of Logo LGA. It was the community’s weekly market day, and traders were getting ready to go home. The gunmen opened fire near a POS shop in the Ikyô Tor Dukur area and then moved toward the motor park on Afia Road. The attack lasted more than two hours, according to Vanguard. The dead were Pastor Terungwa Tyonungo, Msoo Chan, Suurshater Iornumbe and Dodo Shingir.

Reported casualty figures differed. New Telegraph named eight wounded: Kumater Awua, Miracle Gangera, Tsetim Terungwa, Iortyom Helen, Seember Aondongu, Kofi Aondosoo, Chuku Okoro and Orker Iortyom. Logo LGA chairman Clement Kav put the toll at four killed and five injured. Benue police spokesman DSP Peter Aondongu said three people died, TruthNigeria reported. TruthNigeria also reported that the attackers were Fulani militiamen who arrived on motorcycles.

According to the field report, Christian farming communities in Logo have resisted a siege imposed by Fulani herdsmen, who are also attacking the weekly markets where Christian farmers gather to sell their produce. Government sources told TruthNigeria the aim was to disrupt farm production during the harvest.

In Plateau, Fulani herdsmen killed two people and wounded a third on Nov. 6 in Larkas, a community in the Panyam district of Mangu LGA. Larkas lies at the edge of villages whose residents have been displaced. In a phone interview with field reporters, Mathias Sokdet, a community leader in charge of internally displaced persons (IDPs), said the siege had devastated the economy of the area’s Christian communities.

Residents cannot cultivate their farmland, he said, and those who managed to plant some fields have not been able to harvest them. Sokdet appealed to Christian communities around the world to pray for them and send aid.

On the evening of Nov. 7, Fulani herdsmen killed the nephew of Barrister Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri, an outspoken Christian leader in Plateau, in Riyom LGA, according to local reporters on Facebook. The field report states that the attackers targeted Mwantiri’s nephew in an attempt to silence Christian voices. His name has not been reported.

On Sunday, Nov. 8, gunmen killed three civilians and a soldier in Bel village, Sho District, Barkin Ladi LGA. The field report identifies the three civilians as Christian youths and attributes the attack to Fulani herdsmen. Rwang Tengwong, publicity secretary of the Berom Youth Moulders Association, named the dead as Emmanuel Pam Dachung, 15, Joseph Gyang, 28, and Emmanuel Yohanna, 32. He said a soldier was also among those killed, Daily Trust reported.

The soldier has not been named. People’s Gazette reported that two other people were wounded. One was Bala Kefas Dachung, 26. The other, Vivian Christopher, 26, was in critical condition at Jos University Teaching Hospital, where surgeons removed six bullets.

Resident Bulus Bot said the gunmen “opened fire on innocent citizens, leaving some people dead and others injured.” Tengwong said the killing of a minor and a soldier “highlights the gravity of the security situation.” He also questioned whether the curfew in Barkin Ladi was working. Capt. Chinonso Polycarp Oteh, spokesman for Operation Enduring Peace, and state police spokesman Alfred Alabo had not commented by the time the reports were published.

 

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