Gunmen kill six persons in Plateau community

<p>Six persons were again killed in the Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State when gunmen stormed the area.</p>, <p>Also arrested are 31-year-old Salisu Ismail, and 27-year-old Habeeb Saudi, who acted as receivers of stolen items from the gang.</p>, <p>“Police did not rest on its oars; combed the bush where two of the suspects were arrested.</p>, <p>“But on getting to a point around Ikire jurisdiction, the said passengers forced him to stop and started shooting to scare him; while struggling with them, he was stabbed with a knife at his left hand, pushed out of the vehicle, and suspects went away with the said 4matic Benz car.</p>, <p>The Command also recovered one Mercedes C-Class, one cut-to-size pistol, one live cartridge and one knife from them.</p>, <p></p>, <p>According to Opalola, who addressed journalists on the gains by the Command, “On 15th June 2023 at about 0630hrs, the complainant reported at Gbongan Division that, at about 0100hrs of same date he picked four (4) passengers from Opic park, Ogun State heading to Abuja with an unregistered Mercedez Benz car.</p>, <p>According to the Command spokesperson, Yemisi Opalola, the four suspects were arrested on June 15, 2023, after a complaint at the Gbongan Police Division, while the other two were apprehended in Lagos State.</p>, <p>Alabo Alfred, the state police command spokesman, did not respond to calls made to his phone to confirm the incident.</p>, <p>He lamented, “If such an attack could happen in the heart of Riyom town, it shows that people are really not safe here.”</p>, <p>The incident, according to a source, happened in RahossSambak village of Rahoss, saying that a car knocked down someone at about 7 pm on Tuesday.</p>, <p>He added that the villagers decided to bury the accident victim that same night following the bad condition of the corpse.</p>, <p>“Immediately Police received the report, a team of policemen on stop-and-search along Ibadan/Ile-Ife expressway, Gbongan, was alerted, but when the suspects sighted the policemen, they abando