Over 200 killed in fresh crisis in northern Nigeria
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Over 200 people were killed and others seriously injured on Sunday in a fresh riot which erupted in Jos, the capital of northern Nigeria's Plateau State, resident and police have said.
The development came after more than 300 people died during the crisis that erupted on Jan. 17 in the northern city of Jos in Plateau State, when some youths attacked worshippers at St. Michael's Anglican Church in Nasawara Gwom.
A resident of Jos, David Kyang, said the group that attacked the village came in the early hours of the day.
"They came and attacked us when everyone slept; they first set the houses ablaze and shot sporadically into the air to scare the able-bodied men away," he told reporters.
He also alleged that the group equally stormed a nearby village, Ramsat.
The chief medical director of the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Pam Datong, said many of the victims, who sustained various forms of injuries, were receiving treatment at the hospital.
Speaking in the same vein, Chairman of Jos South Local Government, Moses Dalyop, described the group that perpetrated the acts as heartless and barbaric.
"They are inhuman,'' he said.
The Gbong Gwom Jos, Da Jacob Buba, who visited the scene, described the act as "man's inhumanity to man."
"We got messages all the time about threats, about movement of people and the security agencies were alerted accordingly," the News Agency of Nigeria quoted him as saying.
"This is absolutely heinous, this is absolutely irresponsible but we are not in a lawless society despite the lawless activities of some people. It is only God that can condole all who lost loved ones. It is only God who can wipe our tears," Buba said.
The state commissioner for Information, Gregory Yenlong, said the attack was cruel and inhuman.
He urged emergency agency and other relief agencies to assist the people, whose houses and foodstuffs had been burnt and were now living with hunger.
Yenlong said the state government would give the victims a mass burial as soon as all the corpses were recovered.
Police spokesman in Plateau State Muhammed Lerama, confirmed the incident and said the acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Ikechukwu Aduba, would address the press on the crisis on Monday.
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