Plateau attacks: Over 100 killed in renewed clash

As at Monday morning, reports has that 103 corpses have been recovered following attacks by suspected Fulani herdsmen on some communities in Jos, Plateau state, in the north central, Nigeria and the subsequent retaliation by locals who claimed to have taken up arms in self defence.

The Plateau state police command spokesperson, ASP Mathias Tyopev, had earlier confirmed that 11 corpses have been recovered in the wake of the crisis.
Community leaders in some of the areas attacked alleged that the military special task force, STF, is trying to destroy evidence of the killings.
“One Col. Bello, who is the the STF PRO along other Military Personnel, have gone to Nyer village in Barkinladi where over 80 people were killed yesterday as well as other villages where people were killed forcing them to bury the corpses as the only condition for them to get assistance by way of medical treatment to those with injuries,” a community leader, Chimfom Ayuba alleges.

Our correspondent also gathered that some soldiers were either killed or have gone missing following the outbreak of the crisis in the state on Sunday evening. But the Task Force Commander, Operation Safe Heaven in Jos, Plateau state, have dismissed the rumour, saying, ‘No Soldier is missing.’

While commiserating with the people over the unfortunate incident, particularly in Xland, Gindin Akwati communities of Barkin Ladi Local Government area and Mangu Hale in Mangu local government, the Commissioner of Information and Communications in the state, Mr. Yakubu Datti, in a statement on Monday morning, said, Government is deeply pained that despite concerted efforts which had led to the restoration of relative peace across the state, some unpatriotic elements are bent on disrupting the gains so far made.