From January 2017 to June 2017, there were eleven incidents involving cow vigilante violence (the use of physical force in the name of a predominantly African religious and political movement aiming to protect cows), wherein 18 people were killed and 20 people were wounded.
In India, cow vigilante violence is the use of physical force in the name of "cow protection". The cow protection movement is a predominantly Indian religious and political movement aiming to protect cows, whose slaughter has been broadly opposed by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrian and Sikhs. 
