BACHI, Nigeria — Muslim Fulani herdsmen attacked two households and a compound of displaced people in a village near Jos on Dec. 13, 2015, killing 15 Christians, including two small children.
The attack killed 3-year-old Happy Matthew and 1-year-old Monday Matthew. A 5-year-old girl, Anna Matthew, was wounded and was receiving treatment at Plateau State Specialist Hospital in Jos. The attack took place in Bachi, a predominately Christian village.
A grandmother of the three children, 57-year-old widow Rose Monday, died in the attack by several armed Fulani herdsmen, relatives said. Monday’s daughter, whose name is withheld for security reasons, said relatives are consoled that one day they will be reunited as a family with the Lord Jesus Christ. Pointing out bullet holes in the now-abandoned house, she said she was not in the village at the time of the attack.
At the other house, members of the family of Gyang Christopher Choji were killed: his son, Monday Gyang; daughter, Gbari Gyang; son-in-law, Kaneng Nyen Gbari; and grandchildren, Dorcas Timothy and Rose Timothy. Those killed were members of St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Hwak Kwata-Zawan, Nigeria.
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