Six persons have been reported killed after
gunmen attacked a village at Miango district in Bassa Local Government Area of
Plateau State.
The deceased – three male, two female and an infant – were said
to have been killed and others injured when the assailants attacked Tegbe
village on Saturday after the state government had imposed a 12-hour curfew on
the local government.
Commissioner
of Police in the state, Mr Undie Adie, who was on an assessment tour of the
village, described the attack as a shock considering curfew in the area.
According
to him, the gunmen took advantage of the restriction to unleash terror on three
villages with houses burnt, lives lost and people injured.
An
eyewitness told Channels Television that the attackers came at about midnight
and shot sporadically, an act he said caught the people unaware.
He added
that he managed to escape the scene while the attackers set some houses ablaze,
as well as barns where harvested foodstuff was preserved.
The state
government condemned the attack in a statement issued on Sunday by the
Director, Press and Public Affairs, Samuel Nanle.
The
government said the attack sought to “take the state back to the dark days of
violent conflicts” and vowed to identify and prosecute all those behind the
heinous crime.
It also
warned that any person or group in villages and neighbourhoods identified to
have been providing refuge and escape for perpetrators of the act would not be
spared the wrath of the law.
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