17.06.2026 20:10
In Nigeria's Plateau state, an attack by motorcycle-armed gang members killed 9 people and injured 11.
9 people lost their lives in an armed attack in Nigeria's Plateau state.
MOTORCYCLE GANG MASSACRE
Danjuma Dickson Auta, Secretary General of the Irigwe Area Youth Association, stated in a statement that members of an armed motorcycle gang opened fire in the Kamaru area on the Plateau-Kaduna border in Plateau state.
9 DEAD, 11 INJURED
Auta reported that 9 people died and 11 were injured in the attack. Auta, stating that the injured are receiving treatment in hospitals, added that security forces have been deployed to the area.
Nigeria has long been subjected to attacks by armed gangs as well as terrorist organizations Boko Haram and ISWAP, the West African branch of ISIS, in various parts of the country.