Gunmen kill three, injure two in Plateau

Three young people were tragically killed by attackers in Rakok village, Barkin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Wednesday.

In a statement from the Berom Youths Moulders Association, signed by National President Dalyop Mwantiri, the victims were reported to have been murdered while engaged in their daily work in the community when the assailants struck.

The association strongly condemned the attack, noting its reoccurrence in the area, and urged security agencies to take action to prevent further violence and protect farm produce from destruction.

“The recurrence of continued killings, ambushes, assault on women, willful destruction and mass harvest of corn and other crops belonging to Berom native inhabitants by Fulani militants and criminal gangs in and around Barkin Ladi, Riyom and part of Jos South Local Government Areas as well as parts of Plateau State should be stemmed with corresponding military action to avoid degeneration of the situation,” the association said.

“The Berom Youths Moulder Association (BYM), therefore, calls on security agents, especially Operation Safe Haven to, as a matter of urgency, crackdown on the aggressions daily perpetrated so as not to allow the aforementioned areas and plateau state at large be a theatre of bloodshed as witnessed in the past.”

The association has called for a thorough investigation and the swift arrest of those responsible for the killings, as well as compensation for the extensive crop damage, stolen harvest, and motorcycles recently taken from the area. They also requested medical assistance for those injured in the attack.

Neither the police nor the Joint Security Task Force, Operation Safe Haven, have released any statements in response to the recent incident.