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Attackers raided Bin-Per village in Mangu overnight; the toll is reported as 24 by AFP and local media and as 25 by Reuters and the Plateau State House of Assembly JOS, Nigeria — August 19, 2026 Armed men attacked Bin-Per, a farming village in Nigeria's central Plateau State, late on Monday, August 17, and into the early hours of Tuesday, August 18, killing at least 24 people, according to AFP and multiple Nigerian outlets, including Vanguard . Reuters and the Plateau State House of Assembly separately put the toll for Bin-Per at 25; the discrepancy has not been officially resolved. Bin-Per sits in Mangu Local Government Area, where residents said attackers armed with guns and machetes moved from house to house, burning homes and farmland in a region where disputes between farming and herding communities over land and grazing rights periodically turn deadly. What Happened Survivors told AFP the attackers struck while residents slept. "We were sleeping, we heard some ...