Nigerian Police yesterday confirmed that militants have in less than a
week killed 14 people including three children in attacks across
trouble spots in Plateau State.
The state has witnessed scores of violence involving the Fulani, an
ethnic group of Muslim devotees, and indigenous Christian communities.
It is still unclear who was behind the latest violence.
Plateau State Police Command spokeman ASP Emmanuel Abuh was quoted as
saying “Yesterday at about 1900 hours 6pm, two men who were
half-brothers were shot dead by unknown gunmen who ambushed them.”
“A woman and her three children were also killed in their home,”
saying the Tuesday attacks happened in the Riyom local government area,
near the state capital Jos.
The family killings followed an attack during the weekend in the
Barkin Ladi area of Plateau that saw eight people shot dead, Abuh added.
In July, two prominent politicians from the mostly Christian Berom
ethnic group were shot dead while attending a funeral in Barkin Ladi.
They include senator representing Plateau North, Gyang Dantong, and
Majority Leader in the State House of Assembly, Gyang Danfulani. The
House of Representative member representing Riyom/Barkinladi Federal
Constituency, Simon Daw
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