Bloody Clash: Adamawa governor, security chiefs visit Lamurde
PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported how witnesses claimed that “at least five persons were feared killed” in the ethnic violence in the community.
The police command in Adamawa also confirmed the incident but said they have not officially recorded any death case except “one injured person.” Police Public Relations Officer, Adamawa command, Suleiman Yahaya, who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES on the phone said the state commissioner of police and other security chiefs, including the brigade commander “just returned from the town after accompanying the state governor to access the situation there.”
“We just returned from Tingna together with his excellency the governor, the commissioner of police, the brigade commander, the NSCDC commandant and I can confirm to you that the situation has been brought under control,” he said “Secondly, we have left our police operational team there to ensure the situation remains normal,” he added. “Thirdly, the commissioner of police directed men of the criminal investigation department to find out the remote cause of this problem in Tingna.”He said about 23 women and children, that were displaced by the crisis have been moved to an IDP camp in Lafiya town where the governor directed that they should be cared for.He said, “only one person sustained injury.
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