Suspected herdsmen have allegedly killed four persons and injured many at Gbra-Zongo village of Irigwe Chiefdom of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.
A newly posted 34-year-old Pastor, Mathew Tagwai of Evangelical Church Winning All was killed alongside three others by the gunmen at the Ggbra Zongo community on Tuesday night.
A resident, Chayi Biri, confirmed the incident and gave names of the deceased persons as Dih Sunday, 21; Duh Abba,38: and Ishaku Abba,10.
Irigwe Chiefdom in the Local Government Area has been under constant attack by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen. Within this period, no fewer than 12 persons have been brutally killed and properties worth millions of naira destroyed by them. A source close to Gbra-Zongo village where the incident occurred said that the gunmen numbering about twenty invaded the village in the early hours of yesterday and shot indiscriminately into the air to announce their arrival.
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The source further disclosed that the gunmen in the process killed four persons, injured six and burnt many houses.
The Chairman, Maingo Youth Development Association, Mr. Nuhu Nkali said the mode of the attack was not different from the previous ones in Irigwe Chiefdom, adding that it was carried out without any resistance either from the harmless community or security men.
” The attack started at about 19:56 pm to the early hours of Wednesday. The gunmen had a field day because there were no security men on the ground to repel them. Security men in the community were withdrawn about one month ago after two of their men were killed” he said.
Plateau State Police Public Relations Officer, Ubah Gabriel confirmed that four people were killed during the attack. He said the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede, had deployed more police under the command of the Assistant Commissioner of Police (Operations) to the affected community.
