Hottestgistnaija.com
Naija Hottestgist has learnt that Senator Dantong Gyang Dalyop and Gyang Fulani, the majority leader of the Plateau State Assembly, were among several people who were murdered today during a mass funeral in COCIN Church Riyom, Barakin-Ladi local government area of Plateau. A member of the House of Representatives, Simon Davou Mwadkwon, was also seriously injured in the attack.
Senator Dantong Gyang Dalyop was a PDP member and chaired the Senate committee on health. Our sources disclosed that the murdered officials were attacked as they attended a mass funeral for a score of about 20 people including twenty men, women and children killed in the area in a gruesome attack launched by yet unidentified gunmen yesterday.
The funeral was just concluded when heavily armed men in military uniforms descended on the mourners, shooting at the senator and other officials at point blank range.
Following the massive violence of the past 24 hours, a curfew has been imposed on Plateau State and soldiers have been deployed in the area in droves with a view to forestalling reprisal killings.
The Plateau State government announced the dusk to dawn curfew as a result of the killings suspected to be by Islamic militants.
For the past several years, bloodshed has been rampant in Plateau state between armed groups of Muslims and Christians.
