On Saturday, the Taraba Police Command confirmed the burial of four persons in Jalingo following an early morning attack by an armed militia on three Fulani communities in Lau Local Government Area of the State. Though a resident of one of the affected communities informed reporters that 15 people were buried at the Jalingo cemetery. ASP David Misal, Police Public Relations Officer in the state, said that the identity of those behind the attack is yet to be ascertained. The Police spokesman called for peace and maintained that security agencies were looking into the incident and that residents should be patient, the perpetrators would be arrested and prosecuted if found guilty. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) got report that the attack was staged at about 6 a.m on January 6 . The affected villages includes Babagasa, Donadda and Kabtibu, which shared a common boundary with Adamawa. One of the residents of Katibu, Mallam Bello Isa, who managed to escape the scene of the attack told NAN that many of his village people were killed and houses torched too. He said that bodies of the 15 persons killed in the attcks were recovered and buried at about 10 a.m in the Jalingo Cemetary. Bello recounted that many people including women and children are still missing, saying that he is yet to see security agents deployed to the area. He said; ‘The heavily armed militia men, who were identified as Bachama and Nyandang people, came to our village at 6 a.m today and said that their cows were stolen, before we could say anything, they started shooting us and torching houses.’ We as residents of that area have no disagreement with our neighbours who Nyadang, we are Fulani by tribe but not herders, yet they attacked for no just cause. One of the Donada village residents, Malam Kallamu Mohammed, who also fled with gunshot wounds, said they were pinned down by the militia of whom were suspected to be Bachama and Nyandang villagers, on early Saturday morning. He said that the militia men were heavily armed arrived the area on motorcycles and started shooting sporadically, torching houses and looting properties in the process.
Source: journalng.com
https://journalng.com/2018/01/07/15-killed-early-morning-attacks-taraba-state/

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