This image grab made from an AFPTV video taken in Maiyanga village, in Bokkos local government, on December 27, 2023 shows families burying in a mass grave their relatives killed in deadly attacks conducted by armed groups in Nigeria's central Plateau State. The death toll from a series of attacks on villages in central Nigeria has climbed to almost 200, local authorities said on December 27, 2023, as survivors began to bury the dead. Armed groups launched attacks between December 23, 2023 and December 26, 2023 in Nigeria's Plateau State, a region plagued for several years by religious and ethnic tensions. Photo: AFP
People were hacked to death with machetes. Gunfire erupted everywhere, seemingly at random.
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