BOKKOS: Greater than 100 individuals have been killed in central Nigeria in a sequence of assaults on villages, native authorities officers mentioned Monday.
The toll marked a pointy rise from the preliminary determine reported by the military Sunday night of simply 16 useless in a area plagued for a number of years by non secular and ethnic tensions.
“As many as 113 individuals have been confirmed killed as Saturday hostilities persevered to early hours of Monday,” Monday Kassah, head of the native authorities in Bokkos, Plateau State, informed AFP.
Army gangs, regionally referred to as “bandits”, launched “well-coordinated” assaults in “not fewer than 20 completely different communities”, Kassah mentioned.
“We discovered greater than 300 wounded individuals” who had been transferred to hospitals in Bokkos, Jos and Barkin Ladi, he mentioned.
The assaults which began within the Bokkos space spilled into neighbouring Barkin Ladi the place 30 individuals had been discovered useless, based on native chairman Danjuma Dakil.
On Sunday, state governor Caleb Mutfwang condemned the assault, calling it “barbaric, brutal and unjustified”.
“Proactive measures shall be taken by the federal government to curb ongoing assaults in opposition to harmless civilians,” mentioned Gyang Bere, the governor’s spokesperson.
Gunfire might nonetheless be heard late afternoon Sunday, based on a supply from the area.
Amnesty Worldwide criticised the federal government within the wake of the assaults, saying “the Nigerian authorities have been failing to finish frequent lethal assaults on rural communities of Plateau state,” in a put up on X, previously Twitter.
Northwest and central Nigeria have been lengthy terrorised by bandit militias working from bases deep in forests and raiding villages to loot and kidnap residents for ransom.
The toll marked a pointy rise from the preliminary determine reported by the military Sunday night of simply 16 useless in a area plagued for a number of years by non secular and ethnic tensions.
“As many as 113 individuals have been confirmed killed as Saturday hostilities persevered to early hours of Monday,” Monday Kassah, head of the native authorities in Bokkos, Plateau State, informed AFP.
Army gangs, regionally referred to as “bandits”, launched “well-coordinated” assaults in “not fewer than 20 completely different communities”, Kassah mentioned.
“We discovered greater than 300 wounded individuals” who had been transferred to hospitals in Bokkos, Jos and Barkin Ladi, he mentioned.
The assaults which began within the Bokkos space spilled into neighbouring Barkin Ladi the place 30 individuals had been discovered useless, based on native chairman Danjuma Dakil.
On Sunday, state governor Caleb Mutfwang condemned the assault, calling it “barbaric, brutal and unjustified”.
“Proactive measures shall be taken by the federal government to curb ongoing assaults in opposition to harmless civilians,” mentioned Gyang Bere, the governor’s spokesperson.
Gunfire might nonetheless be heard late afternoon Sunday, based on a supply from the area.
Amnesty Worldwide criticised the federal government within the wake of the assaults, saying “the Nigerian authorities have been failing to finish frequent lethal assaults on rural communities of Plateau state,” in a put up on X, previously Twitter.
Northwest and central Nigeria have been lengthy terrorised by bandit militias working from bases deep in forests and raiding villages to loot and kidnap residents for ransom.
