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PLATEAU: Eight killed in fresh Bassa attack

By Yahaya Lekwot On Oct 2, 2023

Security personnel stand guard in the Kukawa Village in the Kanam Local Government Area of the Plateau state on April 12, 2022 after resident's houses were burnt down during an attack by bandits. - President Muhammadu Buhari vowed on April 12, 2022 there would be no mercy for those behind the killings of more than a hundred people in a series of attacks in central Nigeria. Gunmen raided and ransacked a group of villages there, local sources said, in one of worst attacks this year blamed on heavily armed criminal gangs. Condemning what he called the "heinous" killings, Buhari promised that the perpetrators would receive "no mercy". (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

No fewer than eight persons were killed and three others injured in an attack by yet-to-be-identified assailants at Adu Kwall district of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State.

The attack was carried out on Sunday evening at a market square in the community shortly after the people returned from the Sunday morning service.

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