The Commissioner of Police, Taraba Command, David Iloyonomon, has said his men have recovered seven travellers’ bodies, comprising five women, a baby and a man in a forest after attack on eighteen seaters bus by suspected vigilante group.
CP David Iloyonomon in a statement said his men found the seven dead bodies in the bush while on patrol to control rising tension between the Ichen and Tiv ethnic groups in the Donga Local Government Area of the State.
This revelation comes in the wake of an attack on an 18-seater bus, which was targeted in an ambush at Gamkwe village within the Donga Local Government Area of the state on Tuesday.
The vehicle which loaded with passengers from Zaki Biam in Benue State, was en route to Maihula in the Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State when it was intercepted by suspected vigilante members believe to have launched an attack on the vehicle passengers.
Unconfirmed reports said the vigilante members had been mourning the death of their member when they sighted the bus, and attacked it in anger, claiming the passengers’ (Tivs) kinsmen were responsible for the death of the vigilante member.
After the attack, 15 of the passengers including women and children were declared missing by the police.
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