PLATEAU: 3 feared dead, 12 houses burnt after herdsmen attack on village

Tragedy struck at the Huke village, Miango District in the Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State during an attack by Fulani herdsmen which witnessed the killing of three victims and the burning of 12 houses in the area.

According to a police source, the attack which claimed the lives of the three persons identified as Ahmadu Hwie (male, 100), Odoh Hwie (male, 90), and Gado Kondo (male, 70) came after the peace brokered by the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Adie Undie.

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The police source also revealed that the suspected herdsmen “have adopted guerrilla tactics of hit and run,” for which it had deployed operatives of the state Investigation and Intelligence Bureau “to intelligently sniff for information to end the attacks and bring perpetrators to book.”

The death of the aged victims were also confirmed by the spokesperson for the Plateau State Police Command, in the person of Matthias Tyopev.

The police spokesman said, “On January 26 at about 18:30hrs, while our men were sustaining patrols around Rafi-Bauna and Jebu-Miango areas, they received information that at about 18:15hrs of the same date, a gang of armed men, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, were seen killing people and burning down houses at Huke village in Miango Chiefdom, Bassa LGA of Plateau State.

“On receipt of this information, they immediately mobilised to the area. While getting close to the village, the suspected herdsmen, on sighting our patrol vehicles, took to their heels. As a result of the attack, some people were shot and killed,” he said.

 

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