‘How gunmen killed 9 during crossover night in Plateau community’

By Ayox Ojo

Iliya Chung, the secretary to the district head of Vwang in Jos South local government area of Plateau State has explained how gunmen killed nine people in one of the villages in the area during crossover night celebration on Wednesday.

Chung said the killing at a community called Bomi in Chigwi village in the district.

He revealed that information about the information about the attack on the Bomi village began to filter in around 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Wednesday with the sounds of gunshots.

Chung revealed that some of the victims affected were later brought to the headquarters.

So, around that yesterday, we received six bodies.

But said the death toll had risen to nine by Thursday morning.

“This, he said include eight corpses discovered at the end of the attack and one person who later died at the hospital.

He said the attack has resulted into tension in the area.

“There is one family that was wiped, it’s only one child that survived in that family. We don’t know the number of people that were injured up till now because we are still gathering some of the names of the people. Police are there right now,” he stated.

“Even though we warned our people that we should not do crossover celebrations. We were hearing that there will be an attack, but not that area. They were saying that they would attack Farin Lamba, but they went to another village,” he said.

He added that because of the incident, the district has suspended its annual New Year celebration in Vwang, which the state governor was expected to attend.

“We’re supposed to have our celebration today, New Year celebration in Vwang that the governor wanted to come for. Because of this thing now, there’s nothing we can do. We are suspending everything because of what has happened,” Chung added.

He also recalled a similar attack two weeks ago in K-Vom Division.

“About two weeks ago, there was an attack in K-Vom Division, in which they killed a policeman. He was on his duty post around 11 p.m. to 12 a.m., they came and killed him, and they left with his gun,” he said.

However, the spokesperson of Plateau Police Command Alfred Alabo said he is working to confirm the incident.