Not fewer than seven people have been feared killed in a fresh attack on Nding Susut village in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau state.
Report has it that the attack was carried out by suspected herdsmen who stormed the village on New Year’s eve.
The assailants reportedly killed seven residents and set fire to over 300 houses.
According to the report, several vehicles and motorcycles and farm produces were also destroyed in the attack, which is the latest in series recently witnessed in the state.
Just a day before on Sunday, December 30, four people were killed and three others injured in an ambush at Gwom Nding Village of Fan District in the same LG.
The report quotes spokesman for the Police Command in the state, Tyopev Mathias as saying that unknown gunmen attacked a Peugeot 504 Station Wagon on the way to Nding Village.
The attack comes not long after an alarm was raised in Benue state over influx of herdsmen.
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