No fewer than 100 people, including a pastor and three soldiers, were killed at the weekend and
Monday in Plateau and Taraba states.
Seventy of the deaths were recorded in Karim Lamido and Takum local government areas of Taraba State and 30 in two villages at the Barkin
Ladi LGA of Plateau State.
It was learnt that suspected Fulani herdsmen invaded Vat and Zakupang , killing Pastor Luka
Gwom of the Church of Christ in Nation and 29 others in the early hours of Monday.
Spokesman for the Special Task Force, Ikedichi Iweha, told our correspondent in Jos that the
herdsmen took the action following the theft of about 400 of their cows. More than 300 of the stolen cows, according to him, were later found
and returned to their owners.
He explained that the cows were stolen in Jos East and taken to Barakin Ladi, a development
that made the herdsmen to launch the attacks.
The Chairman of Barkin Ladi LGA, Emmanuel Lomang, who also confirmed the incident to journalists in Jos, said the attackers killed
17 people in Vat and 13 others in Zakupang, where the Minister of Water Resources, Serah Ochekpe, hails from.
Source: Punch
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