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Felled trees, branches and piles of junk metal lie across the road to Yelwa. They were placed there last week by armed men who wanted to stop security agencies coming into town and stopping the killings. The closer we got to Yelwa, the more signs of destruction we saw. Burned houses, and the twisted metal and shattered windows of cars, abandoned by the side of the road. The police said it was too dangerous for us to go into Yelwa's centre, and made us leave their armed convoy and wait by a vandalised petrol station until they came back. They drove off down the main street, through a milling crowd. But instead, people were desperate to talk to us. Muslim men from the Hausa-Fulani ethnic group, immediately began to gather round to tell their story. They said that the attackers - armed with sophisticated weapons - surrounded Yelwa on Sunday and launched a killing spree that lasted 24 hours. Some of the militia - who came from four neighbouring Christian ethnic groups - were stripped to the waist and painted black with charcoal. Others, the eyewitnesses said, wore military and police uniform. The attackers went from house to house looking for people to kill, looting property and burnings building. (BBC) |
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