Newly-married couple murdered as bandits attack Plateau school

Two teachers have been killed during a bandit attack at a school in Riyom local government area of Plateau state.

The victims were a newly-married couple who taught at the BECO Comprehensive Secondary School in the Kwi community of the local government.

The incident took place 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, confirmed the killings on Tuesday.

Gwott said the bandits also injured other teachers, including the vice principal of the school.

“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,” Gwott said.

“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.

“This resulted in the death of the recently-wedded couple, Rwang Danladi and wife, Mrs Sandra Rwang Danladi, who was the staff of the school while Mr Dalyop Emmanuel Ibrahim, who is the Vice Principal of the institution, sustained a serious injury and is receiving medical treatment at the Jos University Teaching Hospital.