Jos — At least 32 people were killed and many others injured in three villages of Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday, in a violence that broke following incidents of cattle rustling.
Trouble started in the early hours of yesterday when unidentified gunmen laid siege on Tolgang, Magama and Karkashi villages. They shot and killed villagers, and also set fire to homes, locals told Daily Trust yesterday.
"We woke up this morning to the sad reality of attacks from arms-carrying men who invaded three villages killing people and burning houses," Langtang South resident Barrister Solomon Dalong told our reporter.
He said the attacks inflicted "colossal destruction" on affected communities.
Chairman of Langtang South LGA management council Mr. Narman Darko told Daily Trust 32 people were killed and more than a hundred houses destroyed in the three villages.
He said Magama suffered the highest death toll of 23, while seven were killed in Tolgang and two in Karkarshi.
Earlier, Darko said in a BBC Hausa interview that in one of the affected areas alone, one person told him he saw over 20 dead bodies.
For his part, Dalong said the identity of the invaders had not been determined but that witnesses blamed nomadic mercenaries.
"We are yet to ascertain those responsible for the attacks, but people who escaped from the affected areas said the attackers looked like nomads who were well armed," he said.
In his own account, Daniel Sule King, former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) official in Plateau State who is from Langtang South, said hundreds of people who fled the three villages where being resettled as he spoke with Daily Trust in the evening of yesterday.
0 comments:
Post a Comment