On the night of 13 June 2025, gunmen moved through the farming community of Yelewata in Benue State and began shooting people in their beds. Those who ran out were shot in their compounds. Those who hid were burned inside their houses. By morning, Amnesty International had confirmed at least one hundred dead. By Monday, survivors placed the toll at one hundred and fifty.
Yelewata was one strike in a long sequence before and after. On the night of 2 April 2025, gunmen had entered five communities in Bokkos district of Plateau State in the early
