Soldiers open fire on rampaging Plateau youths, one killed

Plateau state

Soldiers serving with the Special Task Force in Jos, Plateau State, on Thursday opened fire on rampaging youths who blocked a road in Bokkos Local Government Area.

The youths were protesting the killing of a monarch and a night attack on Wednesday.

At least one person was killed and five others injured, witnesses told PREMIUM TIMES. A witness, Mangai Haruna, said the youths refused to allow soldiers into the area.

“They shot on our people, one of them died instantly,” Haruna said.

Violence began on Monday afternoon when unknown gunmen ambushed and killed Lazarus Agaei, a first class traditional ruler and the Saf Ron Kurele, alongside his wife, son and a police guard.

On Wednesday night, unknown assailants reportedly destroyed homes and attacked residents of the area.
In protest, youths barricaded roads leading to the area on Thursday morning, and blocked the convoy of the police commissioner of Plateau State, Adekunle Oladunjoye, who was later allowed in.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations, Habila Joshak, is currently in Bokkos.
The DIG said the police was deploying a chopper for an aerial patrol of the local government council for the next two weeks, with the aim of arresting those behind the attacks.

 

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