- The Taraba state police command said two people have been killed by suspected herdsmen
- The police noted that the suspects attacked villages in Takum local government area of state barely hours after President Muhammadu Buhari's visit
- The command’s public relations officer David Misal said normalcy has since returned to the area with high deployment of security personnel to forestall further attacks and reprisals
Suspected herdsmen have reportedly killed two people at villages in Takum local government area of Taraba state, barely hours after President Muhammadu Buhari visited the state.
Daily Sun reports that the state police command that confirmed the incident noted that at least on person was killed at Adada village and a reprisal attack in Manya village led to the death of another person.
The command’s public relations officer David Misal said normalcy has since returned to the area with high deployment of security personnel to forestall further attacks and reprisals.
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The senior special assistant on public affairs to Governor Darius Ishaku, Emmanuel Bello, earlier said gunshots intensified when the suspects moved to invade a village around Takum local government area of the state.
Bello said that some youths in the area had mobilised to go and protect school children at the boarding secondary school in the village where the attackers seemed to target.
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The governor’s aide regretted that the attack was coming just days after the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state which was supposed to abate the spate of wanton killings by herdsmen in the state.
He wondered why such attacks could happen in Takum that was home to a military barracks and continued as though there was no security presence in the area at all.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that the state police said not less than three communities were attacked in Lau local government by some assailants.
The attack forced residents of Katibu, Donada, Mayo-Lope and Abbare border areas of Taraba and Adamawa states to flee to surrounding towns immediately a police squard deployed to the area.
The state chairman of Miyetti Allah in Taraba, Sahabi Tukur, said the attack, which was perpetuated by militias of the Bachama ethnic group, was targeted at Fulani residents.
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Source: Naija.ng
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