Gunmen killed ten people and injured 19 others at a festival in an Irigwe hamlet of the Bassa Local Government Council in Plateau State, according to police.
The attack, which occurred in Chando Zerreci hamlet during a ceremony that ushers in the rainy season, was blamed on herdsmen by several villagers.
Comrade Lawrence Zongo, the National Publicity Secretary of the Irigwe Youth Movement, said in a statement yesterday that the attack happened around 11 p.m. on Saturday.
The statement pleaded with the authorities to help them.
Source: the nation