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Published: 10:50 GMT Daylight Time - Thursday 26 July 2012

Fifty Christians burned alive by Islamist militants in Nigeria

Country/Region: Africa, Nigeria

Boko Haram, the militant Islamist group responsible for the violent deaths of hundreds of Christians in Nigeria, has launched another lethal attack in the country’s Middle Belt.

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Christians in Plateau state
continue to suffer brutal violence

Last week Boko Haram fighters descended on twelve villages in Plateau state. Fleeing from the violence, local Christians took refuge in the house of a local church leader. The house was bombed and more than 50 people were burned alive, including the pastor’s wife and children.

Boko Haram is committed to establishing an Islamic state in the mainly Muslim North of Nigeria and has made clear that Christians are not welcome there, issuing an ultimatum for them to leave and threatening to eradicate them from the region.

But it has also extended its campaign of terror into the Middle Belt, where the population is more evenly mixed between Muslims and Christians. On 10 June this year a bomber killed around 10 people in a church in Jos, capital of Plateau state.

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