More murders, more funerals. Christians are being massacred in Nigeria. Photos courtesy of Paul.Gunmen killed at least seven people in two attacks on Christian farming communities in Nigeria’s Plateau State. In Gero village, in Jos South Local Government Area (LGA), police reported six deaths, while a local youth association reported seven. In an earlier attack on October 24, gunmen ambushed women harvesting crops in Gwom-Ajang village, in Barkin Ladi LGA, killing a 60-year-old woman and injuring two others.The Berom Youth Moulders-Association (BYM), which represents young people of the Berom ethnic group, said attackers entered Gero at about 9:30 p.m. on Monday, October 26, and opened fire on residents at shops and a restaurant. BYM National Publicity Secretary Rwang Tengwong told Channels Television that seven people were killed and their bodies taken to a mortuary.Commissioner of Police Ayodeji Faniyan deployed mobile police and tactical units led by the deputy commissioner in charge of operations. He visited Gero on Tuesday and met with community leaders and representatives of youth and women’s groups.Joint security teams have since searched the surrounding area, recovering motorcycles and other items believed to have been left behind by the attackers.Governor Caleb Mutfwang addressed the attack during the swearing-in of special advisers at the New Government House in Jos. He expressed particular concern about Gero’s proximity to the Jos metropolis and said investigators had recovered evidence at the scene that could help identify the perpetrators.Community leaders identified the attackers as armed Fulani herdsmen, while police described them as unidentified gunmen. In an interview with reporter Masara Kim, BYM President Barrister Dalyop Solomon Mwantiri said the Gero attackers came from neighboring Bassa LGA.Both targeted communities are Christian, consistent with a regional pattern of attacks on Christian communities that bypass nearby Muslim villages.Gero has faced security concerns for months. In April 2026, community leaders met with members of the Fulani community at the Nigerian Army’s Sector 2 Command in Jos South. They raised concerns about unidentified people moving around Gero, Rafin Bauna and Dutsen Kura in the Miango-Bassa axis.On October 24, two days before the Gero attack, armed men wounded a herder and shot 10 of his cows in the Gero area of Gyel District. The attack on Gwom-Ajang, in Foron District of Barkin Ladi LGA, occurred that same afternoon as women harvested groundnuts and soybeans.Community youth leader Dung Sunday told the field reporting team that the attackers were armed Fulani herdsmen who had settled near the village. Anthonia Sunday, 60, was killed, while Happiness Gwom, 30, sustained life-threatening injuries and was taken to Jos University Teaching Hospital. The other injured woman has not been named.The field reporting team also reports that the same group carried out an earlier attack on Gwom-Ajang. On Sunday, May 31, 2026, gunmen opened fire on residents gathered for a birthday celebration. BYM reported eight people killed and more than 10 injured, attributing the attack to armed Fulani gangs. Police confirmed five deaths.In a statement signed by Tengwong, BYM condemned the Gwom-Ajang attack, saying the victims were farming to support their families. “No citizen should have to risk their life simply to cultivate or harvest crops,” the statement said.BYM urged the Plateau State Government and security agencies to investigate, arrest those responsible and increase patrols during the harvest season. It also called for early-warning and rapid-response systems developed with community leaders and local security groups, stressing that rural communities needed a visible security presence and action against perpetrators.Nigeria’s herders are mostly Fulani, a primarily Muslim people. Community groups in Plateau, including BYM, attribute attacks on Christian villages to armed Fulani herdsmen. Some Christians also accuse herders of deliberately driving cattle onto their farms to consume and destroy crops, describing this as a strategy to use starvation as a weapon and force residents from their land.Reports from Plateau in 2026 document crop destruction alongside killings. In April, troops of Operation Enduring Peace found 16 cattle grazing on a cultivated cabbage farm in Tahoss, Riyom LGA, with no herder present. The operation is the Nigerian military’s joint task force for Plateau State and parts of Bauchi and Kaduna States.In June, armed men destroyed about five hectares of cabbage and carrots nearing harvest in Gassa community, Ropp District, Barkin Ladi LGA. BYM condemned the destruction of farmland, sexual harassment of women returning from farms, and cattle rustling in Riyom and Barkin Ladi LGAs.In October, the Mwaghavul Youth Movement said an attack on Nchiya community in Mangu LGA, which killed 65-year-old Dauda Shamaki, followed an incident in which cattle entered farmland and destroyed the crops.The violence has left farmers unable to work safely and threatened food production across the state. John Wuyep, chairman of the Plateau State chapter of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria, told BusinessDay that farmers in Bokkos and other areas could no longer visit their farms alone.An agricultural economist in the state Ministry of Agriculture warned that this year’s harvest could decline if farmers could not return to their land. Amnesty International reported in 2025 that most people displaced by attacks in Plateau were farmers, leaving them unable to cultivate their land.The field reporting team assesses that attacks on Christians working on or traveling to their farms, together with crop destruction, are intended to disrupt village economies and force residents to leave through hunger.Following the Gero attack, Tengwong again demanded justice. “The killing of innocent people in Gero is condemnable and must not be allowed to continue,” he said.The post At Least Seven Killed in Two Attacks on Christian Communities in Nigeria’s Plateau State appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.