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Eight killed, four injured in fresh Jos attack

Posted by arimah patrick ifeanyi on December 4, 2010 at 3:28am
Eight people, mostly women and children, were killed in Rikwe Chongu village in Bass Local Government Area of Plateau State in another pre-dawn attack allegedly perpetrated by herdsmen.Our correspondent gathered that the herdsmen invaded the village at about 2.30 am on Friday morning, shooting sporadically in the air.The village is about 30km west of Jos, the state capital.The villagers, who recognised the style of previous attacks, refused to come out of their houses.However, in another attempt to lure the villagers out of their homes, the herdsmen set their houses ablaze and positioned themselves at the entrances so that anybody that came out was either gunned down or killed with a cutlass.The Commander of the Special Task Force on Jos crises, Brig.-Gen. Hassan Umoru, who confirmed the fresh attack to our correspondent, said, “The attack was carried out at about 02: 23 Hours of Friday, December 3, 2010. Seven people were killed and four others sustained injuries.”The spokesman for the STF, Lt. Jerry Ayim-Odu, said, “The four people injured are currently receiving treatment at the Jos University Teaching Hospital, while the corpses of the dead were deposited in the same hospital.“Among the seven victims are two men, the remaining five are women and children.“The Fulani are the suspects in this fresh attack, but that will be confirmed by the police investigation; we have already handed over the investigation to the police.”A former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Jonathan Asaki, who visited the scene, said, “This is another of the series of unprovoked attacks on the people. This is not crisis, but a deliberate plot to maim and kill mostly women and children.”
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