The spate of killings in Plateau State continued unabated on Monday with 11 more people killed in separate attacks in Barkin Ladi and Jos North Local Government areas of the state.
The new wave of killings came less than 48 hours after a family of eight were killed in Heipang in Barkin Ladi LGA.
Our correspondent gathered that suspected Fulani herdsmen had attacked Zakalio, a village in Tar District of Jos North Local Government Area around 2.00am, killing seven people.
In the second attack, which also occurred in the early hours of Monday, another group of marauders attacked Dabwak, near Kuru Science School and Farin-Lamba, killing four people — two aged people and two of their grandchildren.
One of the survivors of the Zakalio attack said the assailants came to the village in two Opel Vectra cars and fired shots into the air to scare the people.
He added that in the raid, which he said lasted for about two hours, three women and four men were killed while five houses were burnt.
Meanwhile, the Chairman, Jos North Local Government Area, Mr. Timothy Buba, has condemned the attack.
He wondered why such a dastardly act would be committed in the area when soldiers in the Special Task Force were not far from the scene.
Buba implored the military high command to investigate the activities of members of the Special Task Force deployed in the area.
The chairman said the response of the soldiers to distress calls from the inhabitants of Zakalio was questionable.
“When the people of the village called them when the attack was going on, the STF simply responded by saying that they had no fuel in their vehicles. And after the attack, we saw the bootprints and other live ammunition left behind by the attackers, all these call for an investigation,” he said.
In the Kuru attack, a 74-year-old and his 70-year-old wife were brutally killed alongside their grand children, Philip, 11, and Titus, eight.
The assailants also inflicted injuries on 10 others.
As a result of the attack, women and youths in the area held protest at the military posts in the affected villages, alleging that men of the STF were responsible for the attack.
The aggrieved youths, who who came out in hundreds, burnt four trailers, two buses and two cars.
For more than five hours, the youths took over Maraba Jama’a, causing heavy traffic on the road to and from Jos, the state capital.
The Police Commissioner, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, did not respond to inquiries as he said he was in a meeting.
The state government, through the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, condemned the attacks. Yiljap urged the community to be vigilant and protect themselves against future attacks.
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayThe new wave of killings came less than 48 hours after a family of eight were killed in Heipang in Barkin Ladi LGA.
Our correspondent gathered that suspected Fulani herdsmen had attacked Zakalio, a village in Tar District of Jos North Local Government Area around 2.00am, killing seven people.
In the second attack, which also occurred in the early hours of Monday, another group of marauders attacked Dabwak, near Kuru Science School and Farin-Lamba, killing four people — two aged people and two of their grandchildren.
One of the survivors of the Zakalio attack said the assailants came to the village in two Opel Vectra cars and fired shots into the air to scare the people.
He added that in the raid, which he said lasted for about two hours, three women and four men were killed while five houses were burnt.
Meanwhile, the Chairman, Jos North Local Government Area, Mr. Timothy Buba, has condemned the attack.
He wondered why such a dastardly act would be committed in the area when soldiers in the Special Task Force were not far from the scene.
Buba implored the military high command to investigate the activities of members of the Special Task Force deployed in the area.
The chairman said the response of the soldiers to distress calls from the inhabitants of Zakalio was questionable.
“When the people of the village called them when the attack was going on, the STF simply responded by saying that they had no fuel in their vehicles. And after the attack, we saw the bootprints and other live ammunition left behind by the attackers, all these call for an investigation,” he said.
In the Kuru attack, a 74-year-old and his 70-year-old wife were brutally killed alongside their grand children, Philip, 11, and Titus, eight.
The assailants also inflicted injuries on 10 others.
As a result of the attack, women and youths in the area held protest at the military posts in the affected villages, alleging that men of the STF were responsible for the attack.
The aggrieved youths, who who came out in hundreds, burnt four trailers, two buses and two cars.
For more than five hours, the youths took over Maraba Jama’a, causing heavy traffic on the road to and from Jos, the state capital.
The Police Commissioner, Mr. Emmanuel Ayeni, did not respond to inquiries as he said he was in a meeting.
The state government, through the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, condemned the attacks. Yiljap urged the community to be vigilant and protect themselves against future attacks.
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