At least 40 persons have been reportedly killed by bandits in Zurak Kompani and Bandalala communities, Bashar District of Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Wase residents told Channels Television that the attacks on the villages occurred on Monday night when residents were retiring from the day’s work.
The bandits, according to the residents, attacked the villages simultaneously. They set houses on fire, leading to pandemonium in which some of the residents were killed and others sustaining injuries.
Over thirty persons were reportedly killed in Kompani Zurak while another ten were killed in Bandalala with several others still missing.
Residents of the attacked communities have fled to neighbouring villages to seek refuge.
One of the residents of Wase town Audu Ummah said that some of the injured from the attacked communities are receiving treatment in various health centres while other survivors have moved to Wase and other villages.
Meanwhile, neither the Operation Safe Haven OpSH keeping the peace in the State nor the State Police Command had commented on the latest incident.
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