By Suleiman Anyalewechi
No fewer than 12 persons have been feared killed by suspected terrorist elements in an attack on the local mining community of Fan, in Barkin Ladi Local Council of Plateau State.
The attack which was said to have been launched at about 9 pm on Tuesday December 16 ,2025,balso led to the abduction of three people. Five others were critically injured.
Local leaders described the attack on the innocent people engaged in their legitimate mining activities as not only unprovoked, but dastardly and cruel.
Reacting to the unfortunate incident, the National President of the Berom Youth Moulders Association, Barr. Solomon Dalyop, lamented that following a familiar pattern, the attackers struck without any provocation.
According to him, the attackers killed 12 innocent people, injured over five others, and took away three others after inflicting significant destruction on properties of community members.
“Our people were carrying out their legitimate mining business in Fan, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area around 9 pm on Tuesday when armed men attacked them, killing 12 persons, injured five, and took away three others”, Dalyop said .
While strongly condemning the incident, he described the latest attack as a stark reminder of the perilous state and danger being faced by several communities in Plateau state in the last few years.
This is as he called on the Plateau state Government and all relevant security agencies to wade in to the situation.
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