Christian residents of Nigeria’s Plateau state are ducking for cover as reprisal killings mount both in the state capital of Jos and in the rural conflict zones of Bassa County, 12 miles west of the city. The violence against Christian residents has grown since a massacre of 22 Fulani Muslims by a Christian mob on Aug. 14. The combined death count as of Aug. 23 for all victims of violence—Christian and Muslim—since Aug. 14 is 45. In villages of Bassa County to the west of Jos, residents wailed in the streets after a nighttime raid by Fulani militants on Aug. 17. After being shot in the left forearm, Timothy Dauda, a young maize farmer, spoke to The Epoch Times from his hospital bed in Miango, a fertile district town 10 miles west of Jos. His village of Tafi-gana was attacked by men toting AK-47s and machetes. Five people were killed …