Five children and six others k!lled in fresh Plateau attack

A total of 11 persons were k!lled in a fresh attack by gunmen in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The attack, which occurred on Tuesday night, targeted Rachas village in Heipang District and Rawuru village in Fan District, both in Barkin Ladi.

The victims were buried on Wednesday amidst wailings by families and loved ones.

One of the mourners and President of the Berom Youth Moulders Association, Solomon Dalyop, said that the attackers, identified as Fulani militia, launched simultaneous assaults on the two villages, k!lling five minors and six adults.

He listed the victims as Mr. Chollom Danjuma (37), Mr. Sunday Gyang (27), Mr. Kefas Dung (28), Solomon Dung (40), Mrs Christy Dung (3), Marvellous Pam (9), Mr. Davou Manam (25), Japheth Solomon (7), Mancha Monday (7), Nyam Chollom (5), and Maryann Mancha (10).

In a statement issued after the mass burial, which he jointly signed with the association’s secretary, Bature Iliya Adazaram, the BYM condemned the killings, describing them as part of a renewed wave of coordinated attacks that had plunged communities in Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas into another round of inhumanity.

“The Berom Youth Movement is gravely saddened over the renewed wave of coordinated attacks that have, once again, plunged communities in Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas into another round of inhumanity of armed Fulani militancy, banditry, and terrorism,” the statement read.