No fewer than sixteen persons in different communities of Taraba State have been killed by gunmen.
According to reports, the bandits stormed the communities in their numbers at the weekend and whisked away several persons. The communities invaded by the attackers are Gidado and Garinkuka villages in Gunduma district, of Mutum-Biyu chiefdom, in Gassol local government area.
A staff of the local government council, who gave his name as Abdullahi Chul, said the attackers who invaded the communities in their numbers, accessed the villages with motorbikes. Chul said the attackers, on arriving in the communities, were shooting sporadically, adding that several other persons escaped with gunshot injuries.
Also confirming the report, the State’s Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Usman, admitted that there was an attack on the council.
He said the Command was on top of the situation, adding that efforts to get at the bandits were in motion.
