By Muhammad Tanko Shittu
Jos
Special Task Force (STF), in Plateau state had confirmed the killings of three persons in Kassa and Marik villages of Barkin Ladi local government area of the state.
The STF said two incidences occurred on Tuesday evening in the two localities were five persons were killed by unknown gunmen.
Media and Information officer of the STF, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, told our correspondent yesterday night that a man and his wife were shot dead in their rooms at Kassa village.
According to him, some unknown gun men fired at People sporadically, in Marik village, and “injured five persons.”
He said one person died out of the five, while the STF had taken the rest to hospitals who are now receiving treatment.
Also confirming the incident to newsmen, the executive Chairman of Barkin-Ladi local government area, Dr Emmanuel Loman, said a “man and his wife were killed in their home in Kassa while two youths were gunned down in Marik village.”
The council chairman said the attackers had not been identified.
“All I can say is that there had been issues between herdsmen and members of the communities in Marik,” he said.
Our correspondent reports that on Sunday, a Ward Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Samuel Doro, was shot dead by gunmen.