After weeks of respite, unknown gunmen again struck at two villages
in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State in the early hours of
yesterday and killed a member of the Special Task Force deployed to the
area and two others. Information gathered, revealed that at about 12
noon yesterday some gunmen waylaid a motorcyclist conveying the STF man
from Jos to Sho village and rained bullets into his body, killing him
instantly.
A little girl who was within the vicinity when the incident happened
fainted and was later revived at a nearby hospital. . Daily Sun gathered
that the commercial motorcyclist was lucky to escape, while the
suspected gunmen went away with the riffle of the STF man. In a similar
incident, another set of gunmen in the early hour of yesterday killed
two people at Jebu Sop and sacked the villagers from their abode by
setting fire on their homes and shooting sporadically into the air.
It was learnt that the prompt appearance of the men of the STF
prevented further attack on the village, but not before the assailants
engaged the security men in gun battle which lasted for about two hours.
The two bodies of those killed were deposited at the STF outpost at Rim
Junction in the local government.
STF Media officer, Captain Salisu Mustapha who confirmed the death of
the mobile policemen attached to the Command, disclosed that the STF
men later laid ambush for the gunmen and arrested two of them. He said
the commercial motorcyclist escaped unhurt.
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