{"id":65996,"date":"2023-08-10T19:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65996"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T19:53:51","slug":"bloodletting-on-the-plateau-another-21-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=65996","title":{"rendered":"Bloodletting on the Plateau: Another 21 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has, again, condemned the bloodletting in his domain after the reported death of 21 persons early Thursday by unknown gunmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Mutfwang, as always, called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to book, in a statement issued in Jos by his spokesman,\u00a0 Mr Gyang Bere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Reports said the 21 persons were killed in Baton and Rayogot, Heipang District, Barkin Ladi Local Government of Plateau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Mr. Rwang Tengwong, the National Publicity Secretary of Berom Youth Movement (BYM), a socio-cultural group, said that the attack on the communities occurred at 1: 26 a.m. on Thursday, and left seven other persons with various degrees of injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Tengwong, condemned the unprovoked attacks in some parts of the state and like the governor, called on goverment and security agencies to rise to the challenge and end arbitrary killings in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201d21 persons have been killed in an attack in two different villages in Heipang District of Barkin Ladi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201dThe attackers, who came around 1:26 a.m. killed 17 Persons at Batin of Heipang town while four others were killed at Rayogot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">\u201dSeven other persons sustained various degrees of injuries,\u201dhe said<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The spokesperson, however, called on residents of the communities to remain calm and be law abiding.<\/span><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_230810_204628_052.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has, again, condemned the bloodletting in his domain after the reported death of 21 persons early Thursday by unknown gunmen. Mutfwang, as always, called on security agencies to fish out the perpetrators and bring them to book, in a statement issued in Jos by his spokesman,\u00a0 Mr Gyang Bere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":64572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[1932,5644,854],"class_list":["post-65996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-1932","tag-mutfwang","tag-plateau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}