Attack kills 20 in Nigeria's central Plateau attack
Troops recovered 18 bodies and launched a search after the attack, while Governor Caleb Mutfwang ordered security agencies to intensify operations.
- On Sunday night, unidentified gunmen attacked Kawel and Kopkon communities in Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing 18 people before fleeing before security forces arrived.
- Escalating violence across Plateau State has claimed multiple lives since early June, including the ambush killing of District Head Samuel Alaket of Gwande less than five days before the Bokkos attack.
- Troops of Sector 5 under Operation Enduring Peace recovered 12 bodies in Kawel and six in Kopkon following distress calls, then launched searches across surrounding communities for the perpetrators.
- Governor Caleb Mutfwang condemned the massacre, directing security agencies to intensify operations, identify perpetrators for prosecution, and ordering emergency humanitarian support for victims and affected families.
- Authorities have yet to issue an official statement identifying the gunmen, as calls to Police Public Relations Officer Alfred Alabo and Operation Enduring Peace spokesperson Polycarp Oteh went unreturned.
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Attack kills 20 in Nigeria's central Plateau attack
Police in Nigeria's central Plateau state said on Tuesday that 20 people had been killed in a weekend attack on a community in Bokkos district, the latest in a region plagued by communal attacks despite repeated security deployments and government vows to stem the attacks.
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Gunmen kill 21 farmers in restive central Nigeria
Unidentified gunmen killed at least 21 farmers and wounded several others in a weekend attack in Nigeria's restive Plateau state, authorities and local residents told AFP on Monday. Rural areas in Plateau, in central Nigeria, see recurring violence between mostly Christian farmers and semi-nomadic Muslim herders, often over dwindling land under pressure from climate change and expanding populations. Weak policing and impunity for killings often …
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