The Plateau State Police Public Relations Office (PPRO) addressed the roadside killing of 22 Muslims in a press statement dated August 14. The statement was published just a matter of hours after the incident, in which youths attacked a convoy of Fulani travelling along a burial processional route being used by mourners burying their dead from recent Fulani-driven attacks in the Jos area.

Thirty-seven Christians were brutally murdered late Tuesday night in Yelwan Zangam community, Jos North LGA, Plateau State.

More than fifty Christians have been killed in Jos in retributive attacks after an incident in which twenty-two Fulani Muslims travellers were killed in Jos by attackers of unknown motivation. The killings of Christians and university students happened during a government-mandated curfew ostensibly imposed to allow security forces to operate with maximum effectiveness.

When 37 Christians were murdered on Tuesday night in Yelwan Zangam community, located just to the north of Plateau State’s capital city Jos, it was the latest example in a years-long trend of militant violence against largely helpless Christian communities in Nigeria.

17-year-old Timothy Dauda, a Christian farmer in central Nigeria’s Miango district, sits on a hospital bed with a gunshot wound in his forearm.

According to Morning Star News, militant Fulani herdsmen killed 36 Christians in Kaduna state, Nigeria, throughout multiple attacks in the month of August.