Suspected bandits again, Wednesday Morning carried fresh attacks killing 34 people in Mangu LGA where crisis broke out Tuesday.
Krestnews reports that the attackers defied the 24-hour curfew imposed by the Plateau State government and carried out the attacks killing mostly women and children in Kwahaslalek village and other communities in Halle Ward of Mangu Local Government of the State.
National President of the Mwaghavul Development Association Sir Joseph Gwankat who disclosed this to our Correspondent also confirmed that the 31 persons killed were mostly women and children at the village behind the NYSC Camp Mangu while three of their youths were shot and killed on Wednesday in Mangu town while eleven houses were burnt down.
Gwankat also disclosed that the Community had conducted mass burial for those killed on Wednesday.
An eye witness from the community told our Correspondent that for the second time, the village Kwahaslalek ( Behind NYSC camp) on Wednesday morning at about 1:00 am was attacked leaving over 30 people mostly women and children killed as houses burnt and some with gunshots.
Krestnews also gathered that several homes and Places of worship were razed down.
Another Eye witness Danat Hosea said the skirmishes which happened at the Mangu town was a decoy to pave way for the attack on the community which is not far from the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC permanent orientation camp at Jakatai, Mangu Local Government Area.
He added “What happened at Sabon Gari and Mangu on Tuesday was just a distraction so that people’s attention will be shifted away from the villages. “
“At about midnight there was a sporadic gun shots and the women ran to one compound for safety unfortunately, terrorists went there and killed them while the men were keeping vigil outside the community.
The victims were killed at the community Leader’s house where they ran for refuge.
Security personnel who preferred anonymity said, “Mangu town is calm but we were called in the early hours of today (Wednesday) about a development around the communities close to the NYSC Camp, our people are there but the deed had been done.
The victims are mostly women and children, they ran to hide there because they thought the place was far and the attackers wouldn’t go there but the attackers were conveyed in a vehicle and dropped there before they attacked.”
It could be recalled that Governor Caleb Mutfwang who is determined to ensure lasting peace in the state had declared a 24-hour curfew on the Mangu Local Government Area of the state with immediate effect on Tuesday.
However the security agencies are yet to make an official statement on the attacks, the Police Public Relations officer DSP Alfred Alabo said they are putting effort to ensure that normalcy is returned back to the Mangu Local government but couldn’t confirm the number of those killed at the time of this report.