# At least 25 killed in Nigeria village machete attack

https://mins.news/en/video/25817

- Reuters, 2026-08-19 06:50 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDQBN9I3MHk

> At least 25 people, mostly women and children, were killed in an overnight machete attack on a village in Nigeria’s Plateau state. Tensions between farming communities and herders there frequently escalate into deadly retaliatory violence.

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