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One person was
seriously injured in Jos yesterday after some youth, in a procession to
mourn Saturday’s victims, went wild and attacked passersby.

Three Fulani
heardsmen, who were in search of their missing cows were killed
Saturday by people suspected to be Berom youth and badly burnt . Their
bodies were later deposited at the Nigerian Air Force base’s mortuary.

On Sunday,
relatives of the killed men approached the leadership of the Special
Task Force keeping peace in the city to collect their bodies for proper
burial. The soldiers subsequently released the bodies and escorted the
group to the mosque where prayers were conducted for the deceased and
their bodies were also prepared for burial.

However, as the
funeral procession left the mosque for the burial ground, some people
became scared and started running away. This emboldened some of the
youth in the procession to break away and attack people. One of those
attacked suffered a broken skull and was rushed to a hospital.

The state
government has however appealed to the people of the state to keep
calm. It assured them of government’s determination to ensure that
peace returns to the city.

Curfew in the state was lifted only last Wednesday by the state
government, which felt reassured by a long spell of calmness that peace
had returned to the area.