Rampaging Fulani herdsmen used machetes to kill the mostly ethnic Berom victims, including many women and children, in three farming villages near the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau state. About 75 houses also were burned.
Authorities have filed murder charges against 49 of those arrested.
Some of those arrested said the attack was in revenge for the deaths of Muslims in January, when several days of fighting between Muslim and Christian mobs killed more than 400 people -- mostly Muslims.
Survivors of the March 7 attack told authorities that houses were set ablaze and residents were slaughtered as they ran from their burning homes, news services reported.
Source: Baptist Press
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