Plateau Again: Another 9 killed by Unknown GunMen

STILL reeling from the death of over 20 people in Bokkos Local Govenment Area of Plateau State, no fewer than nine other persons were confirmed dead while many others were injured in Ratas village of Fan district of Barkin Local Government Area of Plateau State in a fresh attack.

According to the spokesman of the Special Task Force (STF),  Lt. Jude Akpa, who confirmed the incident to newsmen on Friday, the attackers took advantage of the massive deployment of the STF personnel to Bokkos, where there was an earlier attack, and swooped on the villagers killing nine of them.

Akpa said that before the STF could get to the scene of the attack, the gunmen had fled, but said that the task force mobilised and took those injured to the hospital for treatment.

Chairman of Barkin Ladi Local Government, Mr. Emmanuel Loman, who also confirmed the killings shortly after attending the mass burial of the victims, alleged that the same Fulani who attacked Bokkos also attacked the people of Ratas, while escaping.

He warned that the same Fulani attackers had been sighted around Gashish area of the local government, and that if nothing was done urgently, they might unleash mayhem on the people of the area.

Meanwhile, the state Police Commissioner, Chris Olakpe, has said that normalcy has returned to the troubled villages of Mangor and Mantol, both in Bokkos Local Government, where the Thursday’s attack was launched.

He, however, said that additional troops had been deployed to the area. - Nigerian Tribune