News reaching ViewPointNigeria, indicates that approximately 300 gunmen stormed a native Plateau village on Sunday, killing 5 people and burning scores of homes.

The early morning attack was a clandestine operation, during which Kuka village was completely destroyed, with several houses burnt, property worth millions of Naira destroyed.

The survivors who spoke to newsmen following the attack, blamed herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group from staging the massacre on the native community. The natives said over 200 houses have been completely destroyed and residents have since fleed the area, leaving it desolate and abandoned. 

Salisu Mustapha, military spokesman in Platea

News reaching ViewPointNigeria, indicates that approximately 300 gunmen stormed a native Plateau village on Sunday, killing 5 people and burning scores of homes.

The early morning attack was a clandestine operation on Kuka village (a settlement in the Southern senatorial zone) -said to be completely destroyed, with several houses burnt, property worth millions of Naira destroyed.

The survivors who spoke to newsmen following the attack, blamed herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group from staging the massacre on the native Goemai community. The natives said over 200 houses have been completely destroyed and residents have since fled the area, leaving it desolate and abandoned. 

Salisu Mustapha, military spokesman in Plateau, confirmed the attack, but also adding that the gunmen had been repelled and that calm had returned to the area.

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300 Gunmen storm Plateau village, killing 5 and burning 200 houses