Gunmen reportedly kill three in Plateau community

Armed men reportedly killed three people at Rakok village of Barkin-Ladi local government area of Plateau State on Wednesday.

The National President of Berom Youths Moulders Association, Dalyop Mwantiri, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.

He said two other people were injured in the attack.

Mwantiri demanded a thorough investigation of the killing and arrest of the perpetrators.

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He said: “The recurrence of continued killings, ambushes, assault on women, willful destruction and mass harvest of corn and other crops belonging to Berom native inhabitants by Fulani militants and criminal gangs in and around Barkin Ladi, Riyom and part of Jos South Local Government Areas as well as parts of Plateau State should be stemmed with corresponding military action to avoid degeneration of the situation.

“The Berom Youths Moulder Association (BYM), therefore, calls on security agents, especially Operation Safe Haven to, as a matter of urgency, crackdown on the aggressions daily perpetrated so as not to allow the aforementioned areas and plateau state at large be a theatre of bloodshed as witnessed in the past.”

However, the state police command has not confirmed the incident at the time of filing this report.

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