The girl, identified as Elizabeth Samaila, suffered multiple machete lacerations to the head. She died in hospital. Nine other people were hacked to death with machetes and buried in a mass grave. Eight-year-old Rita, who also suffered head injuries, was among an unknown number of Christian villagers who were wounded in the attack, CSW said — adding that seven other people are still missing.

“What is particularly unacceptable is that her death is the latest to occur in a series of attacks which continue unabated,” CSW’s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said. “Southern Kaduna is steadily being transformed into killing fields, either due to a gross failure of governance, or official indifference and acquiescence.”

Fulani herders routinely brutally attack predominantly Christian farming communities in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. Some believe the nomadic herders launch attacks because they look for grazing pastures, other radicals target Christian villages in a manner that resembles how Boko Haram  terrorise the northern regions of the country.

In a special report, titled “Nigeria: A Killing Field of Defenseless Christians,” released earlier this year, the Anambra-based nongovernmental organisation International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) estimated that about 11,500 Christians have been killed in Nigeria since 2015 by Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram, and highway bandits.

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