<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Sixteen people have been killed in an attack in northcentral Nigeria, where clashes between herders and farmers are common, the army said Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The attack occurred around midnight Saturday in the village of Mushu in the Plateau State, Captain Oya James told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>The region is on the dividing line between Nigeria’s mostly Muslim north and mainly Christian south and has for years struggled with ethnic and religious tensions.</div><div><br></div><div>It was not immediately clear what sparked the latest attack and who was responsible.</div><div><br></div><div>Security personnel were deployed to prevent any more clashes in the area, where tit-for-tat killings between herders, who are most often Muslim, and farmers, who are generally Christian, often spiral into village raids by heavily armed gangs, reports AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>State Governor Caleb Mutfwang condemned the latest attack as “barbaric, brutal and uncalled for” and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice, his spokesman, Gyang Bere, told reporters.</div><div><br></div><div>“Proactive measures will be taken by government to curb the ongoing attacks on innocent citizens,” the governor said.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>