Update (1430): Gregory Yenlong,
the state ’s commissioner for
information, in an interview with the
AFP, confirmed the attack, stating, "I
can confirm that 13 people have
died while six others have been
critically injured, and those wounded
are now being treated at a
missionary hospital in Vom, near
Jos."
The spokesperson for the Nigeria
Police in Plateau State, Lerama
Mohammed, also told the AFP that
they had received reports that the
attacks were carried out by Fulani
herdsmen.
"We received reports of an
overnight attack on Riyom, by
people suspected to be Fulani
herdsmen, ” he said. "Our men are
already there to assess the
causality and the situation."
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Troubled Plateau State experienced
yet another wave of violence in the
early hours of Wednesday, March
17, with at least 11 people killed in
Riyom, just outside Jos, state radio
was reported as saying.
Speaking to NEXT over the phone,
Davou Rwang, a resident of Jos,
said, "It is true. We heard 11 people
have been killed in Ryom, just
outside of Jos."
Another resident, who lives around
Jos and asked not to be named, told
us that the attacks were carried out
by some groups.
"There were carried out by three
groups because three villages were
attacked," he said. “They also set
houses ablaze."
The police said they have begun
investigating the incident.
This latest killing comes only days
after the Army said it had
intercepted a truck conveying 44
people suspected to be militants, on
their way to Jos. Jos was rocked by
violence 10 days ago, when mostly
women and children were killed at
night, in another settlement just
outside the city.
The March 7 violence occurred
weeks after hundreds died in four
days of sectarian violence.
God help dis ppl

Jesu Kristi!!!

again

We need to find a permanent solution to this.
as long as we keep pretending all is well after each attack with one side blaming the other, there will keep being reprisal attacks.

God bless the dead!

Seriously, this is getting annoying. . Abeg no tribe should be allowed to feel they have the sole monopoly of killing ppl at will, this is becoming more like a war to me. At this point, a reprisal attack is justifiable. . . If there cant be equal disarmament then there should be equal armament and terror enough of all the rubbish!

I agree no ethnic group in Nigeria has a monopoly on violence.

These Hausa need to be put in their place.

Why are people especially the people from Jos acting all surprise? Did they not know that the Hausa-Fulani murderers are capable of such? Afterall these same murderers following the footsteps of their fore fathers have been killing since Islam came to this part of Africa. They should learn from the Igbos living in the North to sleep with their eyes open.