No fewer than five persons have been killed by gunmen in Nchya, village Mangu district of Mangu Local Government of Plateau State.
According to multiple in the communities, the incident happened on Sunday around 1:00 am.
The community, according to an eyewitness, Joshua Musa, moved the corpses in a pick up vehicle to Mangu town leading to mass protest in Mangu town as of the time of filing this report.
The village is less than 3 kilometers away from Mangu town
Plateau Police spokesman DSP. Alfred Alabo said, “I’m yet to receive any official report from DPO in the area.”
Similarly, gunmen suspected to be terrorists attacked Kwatar community, close to Gidan Zala, Kotorkoshi district of Bungudu Local Government Area in Zamfara State, killing scores and kidnapping many villagers.
It was gathered that the bandits invaded the community in the wee hours of Friday without security operatives’ intervention.
According to a police officer from the village, Ismaila, many villagers were killed while some were kidnapped, with many escaping with various degrees of injuries in the deadly operation by the terrorists.
“My father, elder brother and his wife were also killed along with many villagers in the attack”, he added.
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Speaking further, he said almost all the villagers who survived the attack have deserted the community for the fear of the bandits’ return.
Another villager, Ya’u Ibrahim, disclosed that the attack was terrible, stressing that many community members sustained serious injuries as they were trying to escape from the deadly attack.
He appealed to the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in the State for the residents to have a breath of freedom.
It was learnt that on the same day, armed bandits unleashed terror attack at a village near Dangibga village in Tsafe Local Government Area of the State but the number of casualties has not been revealed at at the time of compiling this report.
This medium can authoritatively report that axis to Tsafe Local Government Area of the State has become a bandit area.
All efforts to get the reactions of the police proved unsuccessful as the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazeed Abdulahi, refused to pick his calls.