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| Nigeria News Today |
Gunmen invaded two villages in Bokkos Local Government Area, Plateau State early hours of yesterday.
Nigeria news today Believed that the gunmen were mercenaries from Chad and Niger Republics, shot dead 20 people at Matol and Mangol villages using sophisticated weapons.
While trying to salvage the situation, two anti-riot policemen attached to the Special Task Force, STF, upholding security in the state were also shot in an exchange of fire, with six of the attackers also losing their lives.
Spokesman of the STF, Lt. Navy Akpa regretted the death of the two policemen, adding that six of the attackers were also killed.
According to Akpa, the victim figure was “still being verified” but noted that some arrests were made apart from the six attackers killed.
The Nigeria news report today say the violence spread in the morning as locals descended on Fulani settlements around them. Commercial activities in the area have been paralyzed as a result of the attack with many afraid of which area would be the next target.
A victim of the attack, one Majau Yohanna, was quoted “attackers invaded the village from 7 p.m. not long after we returned from our farms and were resting in our respective houses”.
“They (attackers) came in large numbers and had very sophisticated weapons,” Yohanna, currently being treated at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital, BUTH, Jos told NAN.
