Three persons were reportedly killed and several others injured Friday night
by suspected Fulani herdsmen who attack Hukke village, in Maingo District of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau state.
Sunday Sun gathered that the attacked also left 10 houses burnt with foodstuff and valuable items worth millions of naira.
Eyewitness informed that the attackers invaded the village in the night when the villager were asleep and killed a 70-year-old village head, Gado Kondo, Daniel Even 50 and 100-year-old Amadu Hwwie who was machete to death.
Esther Even, whose husband was killed and her father-Inlaw, said the village was attacked on Thursday night and eight persons were feared dead.
“We are tired of what is happening in our communities. People are being killed on daily basis. We live in fear everyday. Seven people were killed on Thursday, eight on Wednesday and today, my husband and father-in-law are all gone,” she said.
“Our houses are burnt with foodstuff. We don’t know what to do now. I don’t know whether we still have government in this country that people are being killed with no concerted action on the part of government.”
Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Tyopev Matthias Terna, who confirmed the incident, said three aged persons were gunned down and hacked to death.
“On 26 January, 2018 at about 1830hrs, while our men were sustaining patrols around Rafi-Bauna, Jebu-Miango areas, they received information that at about 1815hrs of same date, a gang of armed men suspected to be Fulani Herdsmen were seen killing people and burning down houses at Huke Village in Miango Chiefdom, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
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