No fewer than 70 vigilante members were on Monday, killed in an ambushed attack at the Kukawa and Bunyun communities of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Aliyu Baffa, Chairman of the vigilante group in Kukawa, who confirmed the incident, said his team came under heavy surprise attack when a combined team of vigilantes from different formations in Wase LGA were on their way to identify bandits’ hideouts.
“The team ran into an ambush set up by the bandits who were armed with sophisticated weapons and opened fire on the team, killing over 70 of the men on the spot.
“The clash occurred just a kilometer away from the main Kukawa town, when the bandits ambushed the vigilante team as they were heading to a bandits’ hideout located in the government reserve forest popularly known as Madam Forest, which shares a border with Bauchi and Taraba States,” Baffa said.
The vigilante Chairman added that by the evening of the day, a mass burial was conducted for the deceased, but feared there could still be more dead bodies in the bushes, declared that some of his members are still missing and unaccounted for.
“We have buried more than 70 in Kukawa alone, but more bodies could likely be recovered from either side. Our men were overwhelmed by the bandits who carried superior weapons,” he added.
A resident of the Bunyun village, Musa Ibrahim, who also confirmed the incident in his community, said apart from killing 10 vigilante members who were providing security in the area by the bandits, they also razed many houses in the community.
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