At least 70 members of a vigilante group were on Monday, killed after bandits ambushed them at the Kukawa and Bunyun communities of Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State.
Chairman of the vigilante group in Kukawa, Aliyu Baffa, who confirmed the incident to News men, said the surprise attack on his team happened when a combined team of vigilantes from different formations in Wase LGA were on their way to identify bandits’ hideouts.
Narrating how the attack occurred, Baffa said 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 them on the spot.
The vigilante Chairman added that by the evening of the day, they had conducted a mass burial for the deceased but feared there could still be more dead bodies in the bushes as quite a number of his members are still missing and unaccounted for.
