Eight people have been shot and killed between Saturday night and Sunday night in two local government areas of Riyom and Barkin Ladi in Plateau State.
Nigeriacrime.com gathered that the Saturday night incident took place in the Rawuru community of Barkin Ladi where one person was shot dead.
While the Sunday night incident in Riyom took place at the Kuru Station where two people were killed and Kwi where one corpse was picked while four people were killed at the Heipang community of Barkin Ladi.
A resident of Rawuru, Micah said the Saturday incident occurred at about 8 pm and claimed the life of one “Dachung Luka who was shot dead at the Rawuru junction.”
On Sunday night at about 8.23 pm, some armed men in transit shot at and killed two people at Kuru Station as residents also discovered a corpse at the Kwi community on Monday morning. It was not confirmed whether the deceased was also killed by the same armed men at Kuru Station.
The Heipang incident where four young men were killed took place at about 9 pm and the deceased have been buried this afternoon.
Although the Police spokesman, DSP Alfred Alabo could not be reached at the time of this report, the spokesman of Operation Safe Haven, OpSH keeping the peace in the State, Capt. Oya James said personnel of the OpSH are on the trail of the culprits.
His words, “People say there was an attack on communities but that is not the situation. Before our men got there, the people had left, they said they passed through the road and shot sporadically in the air and in the process, bullets hit and killed one person but at Kwi this morning, the Commander was called that there was a corpse found there.
“Nobody knows if it is the same people that passed through that axis or a different group, they did not swoop on the communities. Since on Sunday, our men are there, they wanted to evacuate the corpses but the locals refused. Our men are in pursuit.”
Meanwhile, renewed violence has resurfaced in the State, a week ago, armed men invaded some communities including Maitumbi, Jwak in Mangu and Murish in Bokkos local government areas and killed some yet-to-be-confirmed number of people.
Recall that many isolated and mass attacks and killings in the State happen during the wet season and the State government through the State Peace Building Agency had initiated diverse approaches to ensure peaceful co-existence among citizens but it seems the crisis merchants are yet to embrace peace.