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Four people have
been killed while several residential houses and places of worship were
burnt down in a fresh crisis that occurred yesterday in Tafawa Balewa
local government area of Bauchi State.

State Police
Commissioner, Mohammed AbdulKadir Indabawa, who confirmed the incidence
yesterday while answering questions from newsmen in his office in
Bauchi, said, “from the report we received, four people have been
killed and my unit commander recovered two of the corpses, we are
searching for the remaining corpses and several houses and places of
worship were burnt down by the rioters and the situation was brought
under control” Mr Indabawa further said “we have deployed adequate
mobile policemen to restore law and order we received reinforcement
from Gombe and Kano and we have curtailed the situation even though we
cordoned the area in order to prevent spill over of the crisis to other
parts of the state” He said they were on the way to visit the scene of
the incident together with other security operatives to ascertain the
situation. In his account of the incident, Police Public Relations
Officer, Mohammed Barau said the problem started last Wednesday at a
snooker joint, “because of snooker game, there was disagreement between
two persons which was resolved amicably unfortunately, there was a
spill over of the crisis yesterday, Thursday in the morning, we had to
deploy adequate security which brought the situation under control.” He
said.

A member
representing Lere Bula from Tafawa Balewa Local Government at the
Bauchi State House of Assembly Aminu Tukur commended the security
operatives for their effort in curtailing the crisis and advised them
to do more because the fracas is spilling to Fulani herdsmen in the
bush. “We have spoken to the securities they responded in good time to
control the situation”, he said.

Mr Tukur said he
cannot give the casualty figures at the moment but said he has received
a report that there are several displaced people in Gital and Bununu
villages.

29 arrested in Jos

Also, yesterday,
the Military Task Force in Jos asserts that twenty-nine people have
been arrested last night in Dorowa Village in Barkin Ladi Local
Government Area of Plateau State. A woman, her daughter and one aged
man were all killed by the invaders.

Among those
arrested is a Fulani Police officer serving in Abuja. They were all
said to be in possession of several weapons and petrol.