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BREAKING: Gunmen Kill Three Farmers In Plateau


(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Gunmen  strikes again by  killing  three farmers in Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.

African Examiner gathered that the three victims were on their way to the farm when they were shot dead by the gunmen on Monday morning .

The incident, it was gathered, occurred at the Renwienku community in the Miango district of the council area where gummen had killed someone five days ago after they attacked some farmers in the locality. Others had escaped the attack.

Spokesman for the Miango Youths Development Association, Nuhu Bitrus, confirmed the latest attack on the farmers to our correspondent in Jos on Monday .

Bitrus said, “It was around 7am on Monday when some villagers heard some gunshots .

“When they rushed to the scene, they discovered the bodies of three villagers lying dead on the bush path in the pool of their own blood. The victims just left their homes at Renwienku village a few minutes earlier and were going to their farms when they were shot dead on the way”

A resident of the community ,Friday  Bulus who lamented the killings gave the names of the victims as Friday Yakubu,39; Sunday Nah,45 and Musa Evi who he said was 57 years old.

Bulus said that the three corpses had been evacuated from the bush to the community for burial .

 “How can our people continue to be killed while going to look for food in their farms. This is unacceptable to us”

The Spokesman for state Police Command,Ubah Ogaba was not immediately available for comment when contacted but the Military Information Officer ,Operation Safe Haven ,Major Ishaku Takwa said he would get back to our correpondent over the inccident but he was yet to do so as at the time of filling this report


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