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Police in Nigeria's central Plateau state said on Tuesday that 20 people had been killed in a weekend attack on a community in Bokkos district, the latest in a region plagued by communal attacks, despite repeated security deployments and government vows to stem the attacks.
- Plateau is one of several ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland states known as the Middle Belt, where communal conflict has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years.
- Plateau police spokesperson Alfred Alabo said officers, working with other security agencies, engaged the attackers in a "fierce gun battle" early morning on Sunday before they fled.
- Eighteen people were killed at the scene, and two died later in the hospital, Alabo said.
- Plateau police commissioner Bassey Ewah has ordered additional deployments to the area, including more tactical and mobile police units, Alabo said.
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