{"id":534,"date":"2017-10-16T20:53:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T20:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/index.php\/2017\/10\/16\/27-victims-buried-in-latest-plateau-violence-buhari-speaks\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:54:36","slug":"27-victims-buried-in-latest-plateau-violence-buhari-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/27-victims-buried-in-latest-plateau-violence-buhari-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"27 victims buried in latest Plateau violence; Buhari speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"
At least 27 out of 29 persons reportedly killed in early morning attacks at Nkyie-Doghwro community of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State have been given a mass burial.<\/p>\n
The President, Irigwe Development Association, Sunday Abdu, said the victims were hacked to death in a classroom.<\/p>\n
“Twenty-seven out of the 29 people were buried in one grave. We later found two other dead bodies. It is worrisome because the 27 people already buried were murdered in a classroom, given security cover by soldiers, where they supposedly sought refuge,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Abdu said this on Monday evening in Jos at the Nigeria Union of Journalists’ press centre during a press conference on the killings in Bassa Local Government.<\/p>\n
The killings in the council have continued despite a dusk to dawn curfew declared there on Friday by the state government.<\/p>\n
Mr. Abdu said seven communities have been attacked within one month adding that 41 persons have been killed in the attacks.<\/p>\n
The community leader expressed disappointment that the dusk to dawn curfew imposed on Bassa by the state government was not effective as the killings occurred within the period of curfew.<\/p>\n
In his reaction, President Muhammadu Buhari said that he received with deep sadness and regret, news of the recent killings which have been described as a reprisal attack perpetrated by suspected herdsmen.<\/p>\n
Mr. Buhari in a statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, on Monday said he believes that “this madness has gone too far.”<\/p>\n
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Mr. Shehu said the president has instructed the military and the police to not only bring the violence to an instant end, but to draw up a plan to ensure that there are no further attacks and reprisal attacks by one group against the other.<\/p>\n
“President Buhari is devoted to the sanctity of Nigeria’s unity, and he encourages Nigerians of all groups to learn to live together in peace and harmony,” Mr. Shehu said.<\/p>\n
It also said the president commiserates with the governor and people of Plateau State, and with those who lost their loved ones, friends and family.<\/p>\n