Rwang, younger brother of Senator Gyang Dantong, said on Monday that his brother was the target of the attack that left some mourners dead on Sunday.
Dantong and the Majority Leader in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Gyang Fulani, were among those killed on Sunday when suspected Fulani herdsmen fired at a gathering at a mass burial. The burial had been organised for the victims of Saturday’s attack by gunmen in Barakin Ladi and Riyom, Plateau State.
Rwang, who spoke to our correspondent in Jos on Monday, also denied reports quoting him as saying that his brother died of heart attack.
According to him, when the shootings started, the leader of the Special Task Force team advised the moruners to run.
He said, “When the Senator and others arrived at the burial site, they parked their cars some distance away because the road is not motorable.
“As the procession for the mass burial was going on, there were sudden gunshots. The shooting came from the direction where they had parked their cars and so there was no way they could reach their cars.
“The STF soldier then advised everybody to run for safety because he said that the guns were more powerful than the ones they had.
“All the people then ran towards the hills to escape, by climbing the steep hills. They struggled to climb as the shooting continued.
“In fact, the bullets were just flying over their heads. It was in that process that they lost strength, fell and collapsed. From the direction and the manner they were shooting, it was obvious that my brother was the target of attack.
“He was crying and asking for glucose, but in the bush and in that circumstance there was nothing anybody could do than to take him to the hospital.
“They were then put in a Hillux Van and rushed to the Barakin Ladi General Hospital, but he did not make it as he died on the way.”
Rwang condemned the reports quoting him to have said that his brother died of heart attack.
“When the reporter (not The PUNCH’s) arrived; I was too busy to attend to him. I told him that I had not got the details of the incident yet. I was surprised when I read in the papers today (Monday) that I said my brother died of heart attack,” he said.
Rwang said that he had called the news agency concerned and it had apologised to him.
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