Thursday, October 16, 2025 - A total of 11 persons was killed in a fresh attack by gunmen in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State.
The attack, which occurred on Tuesday night, targeted Rachas
village in Heipang District and Rawuru village in Fan District, both in Barkin
Ladi.
The victims were buried on Wednesday amidst wailings by
families and loved ones.
One of the mourners and President of the Berom Youth
Moulders Association, Solomon Dalyop, said that the attackers, identified as
Fulani militia, launched simultaneous assaults on the two villages, k!lling
five minors and six adults.
He listed the victims as Mr. Chollom Danjuma (37), Mr.
Sunday Gyang (27), Mr. Kefas Dung (28), Solomon Dung (40), Mrs Christy Dung
(3), Marvellous Pam (9), Mr. Davou Manam (25), Japheth Solomon (7), Mancha
Monday (7), Nyam Chollom (5), and Maryann Mancha (10).
In a statement issued after the mass burial, which he
jointly signed with the association’s secretary, Bature Iliya Adazaram, the BYM
condemned the killings, describing them as part of a renewed wave of
coordinated attacks that had plunged communities in Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local
Government Areas into another round of inhumanity.
“The Berom Youth Movement is gravely saddened over the
renewed wave of coordinated attacks that have, once again, plunged communities
in Barkin Ladi and Riyom Local Government Areas into another round of
inhumanity of armed Fulani militancy, banditry, and terrorism,” the statement
read.
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