From Jude Owuamanam, Managing Editor, Northern Operations
JOS (Sundiata Post) – Not fewer than 20 people have been reportedly killed in a dawn attack in Ancha settlement of Miango village, in Bassa local government area of Plateau State.
The attack is coming exactly 16 years after the September 7, 2001 attack that killed more 1000 people and property worth millions of naira destroyed.
The attack, said to have been allegedly carried out by Fulani armed men equally left many wounded.
Sources say the attack, Thursday night lasted hours with no security in sight.
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Terna Tyopev, confirmed the incident, but yet to release details.
Indeed as at time of writing, Police authorities are at Plateau Specialist Hospital attending to the wounded and deceased. He told Sundiata Post that the commissioner of police would address the press as soon as they are through from the hospital.