Fresh Violence Claims Lives in Jos

Scores were killed on Sunday while many others injured and several houses burnt as fresh violence erupted in Jos, the Plateau State capital.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relation Officer, Mr. Mathias Terna Tyopev, assured the state that security men have been drafted to arrest the situation.

According to him, "We have received reports of tension around Dutse Uku, Rikkos, Cele Bridge, and we have mobilised our personnel to the area.

"As we speak, the Area Commander of Jos Metropolis is on ground."

A resident of the area, who identified himself as Mr. Paul Musa, said there has been tension in the area since last week when a boy from Angwan Miango was found dead at the boundary between the community and neighboring Rikkos, an Hausa community in the metropolis.

The tension emanating from the killing was however doused by the security agents.

Again, yesterday morning, another boy from the same Angwan Miango was allegedly killed when he went to wash cloths at Cele River, a stream that runs between the Angwan Miango and Rikkos community.

Angered by the spate of killing, the natives from Angwan Miango took a fight to the Hausa neighbourhood in Rikkos. This degenerated to full blown mayhem with gunshots renting the air as houses were set ablaze.

Some churches, on getting winds of the  crisis, hurriedly wound up their services in order to dismiss worshippers to their homes.

Meanwhile, the security agents are currently struggling to control the affected communities and avoid further escalation.