At least eight persons were shot dead last night by unknown gunmen believed to be in military uniform at Heipang, near Jos, Plateau State.
Several others also sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to the hospital.
Efforts to get the spokesmen of the state police command and the Special Task Force (STF) to confirm the incident proved abortive.
But a resident of Heipang, Monday Gyang, said: "We were just drinking at a local beer joint which is very close to the road when all of a sudden, a Hilux van just stopped and the occupants opened fire on us.
"On hearing gunshots some of us escaped. We later came back to meet that eight persons were dead.
"The gunmen appeared like soldiers because they were in army camouflage, we even know some of them and they came in army vehicle."
Chairman of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area, Hon. Emmanuel Loman, also confirmed the killing.
Loman said: "I just left Barkin Ladi about an hour ago when I received a call that eight people have been killed. This is shocking to me because there is just no cause for this. I am confused mostly because the people who saw the killings said it was done by some soldiers they know in the area. That is the initial suspicion, the security agencies will unravel the truth of the allegation."
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HOW SAFE IS PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN UNDER BARRAGE OF TERRORISTS DEADLY ATTACKS ON THE NATION’S MILITARY, POLICE FORMATIONS When the house built of water becomes noticeable burning with fierce intensity those inside the wooden house should have no cause waiting to be warned to know what to do and how to run to safety. The unstoppable on going terrorists deadly onslaughts at St. Andrew Military Protestant Church at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College Jaji, and concurrently at Maiduguri on Sunday November 25 both claiming 17 lives and 2 lives so far respectively, was enough dastardly acts to set the nation’s nerves on the edge . As if that was not enough to cause hypertensive worries, barely twenty four hours thereafter, that is early morning of Monday 26 November gunmen in whatsoever evil colouration stormed what was expected to be security tight Special Anti Robbery Squad in Abuja the Federal Capital seat of Federal Government of Nigeria and that of President Goodluck Jonathan killing two police officers and freeing suspects being held there. The fact must however not be forgotten so soon that the Federal Capital Territory recorded not too long ago three of such deadly bomb explosions with deadly carriage and wanton property destruction. Interestingly off- course on one entering Abuja FC, one need not be told before noticing the air tight security presence put in place there and about this with guarantee assurance that all was well. With terrorists’ current reckless assaults at not ordinary places but at prime security tight placement expectations in Jaji and Abuja, it has becomes very clear that the chicken is home to roost with warning signal that all is after all not well. The pertinent question to be asked by all discerning minds is that how safe is our president under the security pretension pervading in Abuja It behooves that if the rats could with reckless abandon invade Jaji and SARS, dens of the Lions to kill and maim, let it be a warning that no body not even the president is safe. Dr. Olapade Agoro (Aladura Patriarch) Owa’Tapa of Itapa Ijesa land National Chairman/ former Presidential Candidate,\ National Action Council (NAC)
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