Sorrow, anger as eight family members killed in Plateau community are buried

There was choler and heavy sorrow astatine the wide burial of 8 members of a household who were killed by suspected Fulani militia during an onslaught connected Mbwelle colony successful Kwatas district, Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, connected Friday.

The bandits had invaded the colony connected Thursday nighttime and staged an onslaught sidesplitting implicit 20 radical and injuring respective others.

According to residents, the terrorists had stormed the colony astatine astir 10.30pm and changeable sporadically for astir an hr without hindrance arsenic attempts to alert information unit were futile.

DAILY POST gathered that the gunmen went from location to location successful what was believed to beryllium targeted attacks and erstwhile they got to the location of 1 Elder Iliya Mangut Dakus, they rounded up the household members who could not flight and slaughtered them successful acold blood.

The victims of the massacre were identified as:
Elder Iliya Mangut Dakus (70)
Luck Titus Dakus (38)
Habila Istifanu Dakus (38)
Hassan Istifanus Dakus (31)
Mrs. Hassan Moses Dakus (25)
Wisdom Lucky Dakus (15)
Sunday Gideon Dakus (31)
Innocent Barnabas Makwin (2...