FORTY PERSONS HAVE BEEN REPORTEDLY KILLED IN ANOTHER ATTACK BY ASSAILANTS ON ZIKE COMMUNITY, KIMAKPA IN KWALL DISTRICT OF BASSA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF PLATEAU STATE.
ACCORDING TO KWALL COMMUNITY LEADER WAKILI TONGWE THE ATTACKERS INVADED THE VILLAGE IN THE EARLY HOURS OF TODAY, MONDAY 14TH APRIL AND SHOT SPORADICALLY AT RESIDENTS WHO ARE SCAMPERING FOR SAFETY AFTER HEARING GUNSHOTS.
THE COMMUNITY LEADER TOLD CHANNELS TELEVISION ON PHONE THAT A TEAM OF VIGILANTE INCLUDING HIMSELF AND SOME SECURITY PERSONNEL WERE ON PATROL IN ANOTHER COMMUNITY WHEN THE ATTACKERS INVADED THE VILLAGE AND STARTED SHOOTING.
THOUGH, THE SECURITY PERSONNEL ENGAGED THE INVADERS AND SUCCEDED IN REPELLING THE ATRACKERS, BUT THE DAMAGE HAD BEEN DONE WITH ABOUT THIRTY SIX PERSONS SHOT DEAD AND FOUR OTHERS DIED LATER WHILE SOME OTHER RESIDENTS SUSTSINED GUNSHOT WOUNDS AND ARE RECEIVING MEDICAL ATTENTION AT THE HOSPITAL.
SECURITY AGENCIES IN THE STATE ARE YET TO RESPOND TO THE ATTACK WHICH IS COMING IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AFTER FIFTY TWO PERSONS WERE KILLED IN COMMUNITIES OF BOKKOS LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF PLATEAU STATE.
