Over 27 persons have been killed while asleep in Nkiedonwhro community, Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State by unknown gunmen suspected Fulani militants, just 48 hours after government imposed curfew in the L.G.A.

The Fresh attack was about the third in the LGA since Friday when the governor imposed the indefinite dusk-to-dawn curfew.

According to reports, the gunmen stormed the village in the early hours of Monday, shooting indiscriminately.

While one account said 20 persons were killed in a classroom where they ran into for safety, an eyewitness said the villagers were killed in a classroom where they were evacuated to by security operatives.

A resident, who did not want to be quoted, said while some of the people killed had been given a mass burial, those injured were being treated at various hospitals in the Bassa LGA.

Reacting to the allegation of soldiers’ involvement in the killing, the Special Military Special Task Force, codenamed, Operation Safe Haven, deployed to restore law and order in Plateau State, promised to investigate the alleged involvement of soldiers in the killings

The Commander of OPSH, Maj. Gen. Anthony Atolagbe, made the pledge on Monday evening when he went for an on-the-spot assessment of the attack in the village.

He said, “Soldiers have been sent to the headquarters of the OPSH for a proper investigation on how the attack took place in the village under their watch, especially when curfew was imposed in the village and there was supposed to be restriction on movement.”

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I am beginning to believe these so called Fulani attacks in Plateau State is politically motivated. How can security operatives evacuate people to a place for safety and not provide adequate security for them there? More so, where were the security operatives when the attack was going on in the classroom where they evacuated the people to? Or could it be that they planned it all and moved the people to the said classroom to make the attack easier?