Six killed in another attack in Plateau

The Plateau State Government has
condemned Sunday night’s killing of six
members of two families in their homes at
Kungte village in Jos South Local Government
Area of the state.
Commissioner for Information and
Communication, Yiljap Abraham said in a
statement Monday that the attack on
innocent people mostly women and children
at a time peace had virtually returned to the
state was a cowardly act.
Unknown gunmen attacked the village at
about 8pm on Sunday gunning down six
people in two compounds. The gunmen said
to have been armed with sophisticated
weapons, reportedly shot sporadically into
the compounds.
The statement by the commissioner read:
“The Plateau State Government has received
reports of attacks on some communities in
the state with great indignation.
“The unprovoked killing of six members of
two families in their home in Kungte village,
Kanadap (near Marraraban Jama’a) in Kuru
District of Jos South Local Government Area
by gunmen on Sunday September 1, 2013, is
an evil and wicked act that should be
condemned by all members of society.
“It is also a display of cowardice by the
perpetrators who under the cover of
darkness deliberately chose to visit violence
on vulnerable members of society – women
and children -to achieve clearly devilish
designs.
“Such an attack, coming at a time when the
state has been mostly peaceful for quite
sometime appears a desperate attempt to
reverse the gains of our hard-earned efforts
in breaking down the barriers of ethnic and
religious intolerance and thereby rebuilding
the bridges of communal consensus.”
It added that security has been beefed up in
the affected areas to check any further
breach of the peace.
Just last week, six people including a
pregnant woman, were ambushed and
killed at Bisichi while returning to their
villages from Bukuru by yet to be identified
gunmen.