JOS, Nigeria, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- At least six women and children in a mostly Christian village in central Nigeria were killed this week in a flare-up of ethnic violence.
The attackers in Ranwianku in Plateau state also killed villagers' cattle and burned crops, the BBC reported. Survivors reported the gang that entered the village spoke Fulani while the villagers are mostly Berom Christians.
Officials said the dead included two adult women -- one old and the other young -- and four young children.
Village elders asked for calm and urged residents to abstain from counterattacks.
Earlier this year, several hundred people died in clashes in small villages in the region around the provincial capital, Jos, between Fulani-speaking herdsmen and Berom farmers. Observers say the root cause of the tension is disputes about land use and cattle, and not religious differences.
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