Young people and military personnel clashed at a checkpoint in the Maraban Jema’a neighborhood of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, leaving two people thought dead and another gravely injured.
The incident, which happened on Monday, also sparked panic in the neighborhood, sending people running wildly.
The road leading to Jos City from Maraban Jema’a to Zerwan Junction was also desolate at the time this report was filed and no vehicles were visible traveling on it.
When mourners traveling from a mortuary carrying a body to a cemetery arrived at the checkpoint, trouble ensued.
It was gathered that many of the mourners who were youths were on motorcycles and upon reaching the checkpoint, the military asked them to come down from their motorcycles and push it across the spot.
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But the youths did not reportedly heed the instructon, but rather tried to appeal to the officers.
It was learnt that both parties could not come to terms, leading to shootings.
A source from the area told Daily Trust that three youths were shot in the process.
“One died instantly and the other died in the hospital where they were rushed to,” the source said.
Angered by the shootings, the source said, the youths started demonstrating and set the military vehicle ablaze.
Calls and a text message to the spokesman of Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), Captain John James, were not responded to.
Our correspondent however gathered that women are already mobilizing massively to protest in the area and on the highway.
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