Jos crisis: Another 11 killed

AS the crisis in Plateau State takes a guerrilla approach, no fewer than 11 people were killed in two separate attacks in the early hours of Monday in  Jos North and Barkin-Ladi local government areas of the state.
This followed the killing of a family of eight on Sunday.  Nigerian Tribune learnt that the rampaging assailants, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, struck again at about 2.00 a.m. at Zakalio village in Tar District of Jos North Local Government Area.
One of the survivors of the incident told Nigerian Tribune that the attackers came to the village in two separate Opel Vectra cars and released several gunshots into the air to scare the people.
He further said that in the raid which lasted for about two hours, seven people, three women and four men, were killed while five houses were burnt in the attack.
Buba implored the military authorities to investigate the men of STF deployed in the area, adding that the response of the men when the inhabitants of Zakalio put a distress call to them was questionable.
“When the people of the village called them when the attack was going on, the STF  responded that they had no fuel in their vehicles. And after the attack, we saw the footprint of boots and live  ammunition left behind by the attackers. All these call for an investigation,” he said.
Also in the early hours of Monday, another group of attackers   invaded Dabwak, near Kuru Science School and Farin-Lamba and killed two aged people and two of their grandchildren.
According to a source close to the scene of the incident, a 70-year-old woman and her husband (74) were brutally murdered alongside their grandchildren, Philip, who was 11 years old and Titus, eight years, adding that 10 others sustained serious injuries in the attack.