GUNMEN KILL DOZENS OF RESIDENTS IN TARABA COMMUNITY

The residents, one of them said to be member of local vigilante group  added thats about 20 militiamen were also reportedly gunned down after residents hotly  pursued them into the bush to ward off the attack

Penpushing further reports that the State Police Command Public Relations Officer, David Misal said casualty and wounded figures would be determined after all threats in the area had been neutralized, adding that the attackers were said to have slipped into the community.

 “The attack occurred in the morning and security agents were deployed there. They have been combing the area to flush out any attackers who may be hiding nearby”, he stated

Penpushing recalled that the Catholic Priest was said to be on his way to a peace meeting in Takum which was scheduled as part of an ongoing dialogue to resolve the raging violence between Tiv and Junkun ethnic groups in Taraba State before he was killed and his vehicle set ablaze in the August 29 attack by yet to be identified murderers.

Meanwhile, two days before gruesome murder of the cleric, several people were reportedly killed in the crisis, which has continued to escalate despite efforts by security agencies to curb it.