Bloody clashes in central Nigeria

**At least 30 people have been killed in clashes between herders and farmers in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa State, witnesses say.**Local people have described armed men driving from house to house shooting.

The fighting follows weeks of tensions between the two groups and a rumour that the herders were using magic to protect themselves.

Nasarawa is in Nigeria’s “Middle Belt” where rival ethnic groups often clash over land and other resources.