Not less than four persons have been murdered in a fresh ambush by unidentified gunmen in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
It was gathered that the ambush happened in the Adu Community, Kwall District of the LGA on Sunday night.
A citizen of the LGA and former spokesman for the Miango Youth Development Association (MYDA) in the Council Area, Lawrence Zongo, confirmed the killings in a recent interview on Monday.
Zongo revealed the recent attacks on the community accentuated the increasing insecurity in the area, which had witnessed a series of attacks by gunmen in the past weeks, with no fewer than 15 persons killed and property worth millions of naira destroyed.
“Our people have been attacked again. This time, it happened in Adu village, along Kwall Road. The people were moving on the road when they suddenly came under attack by gunmen who intercepted them. Four persons were killed during the latest incident around 9pm on Sunday. It is a terrible situation that the people have found themselves,” Zongo added
Despite the attacks, The Plateau State Police Command was yet to respond to the incident but the state Coordinator, Neighbourhood Watch, Ola Azeez, however, confirmed the attack. Azeez mentioned that his men had been deployed in the area to assess the situation.
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“Somebody called me this morning to inform me about the attack in Bassa community. So, I have directed the Commander in the Council to move to the affected community and find out what really happened,” Azeez said.
Pleateau, the twelfth-largest state in the country located in the north-central part of Nigeria, has been marred with several incessant attacks by unidentified gun men. This has left parts of the state in economic disarray and insecurity.
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