Policeman missing, 20 killed as gunmen invade Plateau community

A serving Police serviceman has been declared missing conscionable arsenic implicit 20 radical were killed and respective others injured pursuing an onslaught connected Kawel colony of Mushere Chiefdom successful Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State on Sunday night.

Conflict journalist, Masara Kim, who confirmed the penetration of the assemblage successful a station helium shared connected societal media on Monday morning, said the assailants, who were positively identified arsenic Fulani militias numbering implicit 100, stormed the colony astatine astir 10:30pm aft residents had retired for the night.

According to Kim, the attackers, equipped with blase weapons, easy overpowered the section youths providing information for the assemblage and went from location to house, shooting sleeping residents.

He added that galore of the radical who were killed were slaughtered connected their beds, portion immoderate who managed to flight from their houses were either mowed down oregon changeable astatine arsenic they tried to flight into the bushes with gunshot wounds.

A subordinate of the community, Adams Ayuba, who spoke to DAILY POST on Monday morning, said the onslaught came aft a information alert had warned of an impending invasion, but reports to information agencies were not taken seriously.

“The Fulani militias and their sponsors highly coordinated this attack. Though I...