Death toll rises to 11 in Plateau attacks

 Four more persons were killed on Monday in the unending reign of deaths in Plateau State, bringing the death toll in the fresh violence in the state to 11.

 Seven members of a family were killed on Sunday in Barkin Ladi town of the state.
A source told our correspondent that a Fulani attempted passing through an enraged mob at about 5pm and was lynched.

In a reprisal,  a Hausa Muslim reportedly invited a Berom motorcycle repairer for a job, but by 7pm, the mechanic was said to have been found dead among two other Berom men.

The family  of Lagun Jacobs, and a retired police officer, was killed along with his parents, his brother, wife and two children in an attack by suspected Fulani militias.

The incident was said to be a fallout of the clash that started 24 hours earlier when two Fulani travellers were allegedly waylaid and killed by some youths in Barkin Ladi.

The youths were said to be among a mob that was protesting the arrest of two youths by soldiers attached to the Special Task Force.

 

 

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