Again, bandits attack Plateau school, kill teachers, injured others

Bandits have attacked a secondary school in the Riyom Local Government Area of  Plateau State and killed two teachers.

It was learnt that the victims were a newly-married couple who were teaching at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary School in the Kwi community of the LG.

Eyewitnesses said the incident happened on Monday afternoon when the teachers were holding a meeting to compile results of students ahead of the school’s ‘Speech and Prize-giving Day’ coming up on Friday.

A youth leader in the community, Moses Gwott, who confirmed the killings to The PUNCH in Jos on Tuesday, said that the bandits also wounded other teachers, including the Vice Principal of the school.

Gwott said, “It was on Monday around 3pm that the bandits came into the school compound with their cattle, and interrupted the staff meeting. The staff had asked the bandits who were obviously  Fulani to get their cows out of the school environment. But instead of complying, they brought out their arms and  opened gunfire at the teachers killing two teachers.”

The  National Publicity Secretary of the Berom Youths Moulders Association, Rwang Tengwong,  also confirmed the attack in a statement on Tuesday, calling on the authorities to ban open grazing in the communities so as forestall future occurrence.

“The Berom Youths Moulder-Association, is, again, saddened over the invasion of BECO Comprehensive School, Kwi, where two staff members, Mr and Mrs Rwang Danladi, were reportedly shot dead and one Mr Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, the Vice Principal of the school seriously injured by some unknown Fulani armed men alongside suspected bandits at about 3 pm on Monday, August 14, 2023. Punch