No fewer than six persons were reportedly killed after gunmen
attacked a village at Miango district in Bassa Local Government Area of
Plateau State.
The deceased: three males, two females and an infant were said to
have been killed and others injured when the assailants attacked Tegbe
village over the weekend after the state government had imposed a
12-hour curfew on the local government.
Commissioner of Police in the state, Undie Adie, who was on an
assessment tour of the village, described the attack as a shock
considering the curfew imposed 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 spoke to reporters yesterday said that the attackers
came at about midnight on Saturday 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.
Meanwhile, the state government has 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.