Soldier shot, injured in Gombe trying to repel attack on community

By Akanji Alowolodu, Gombe

Unconfirmed report has it that a Soldier was on Tuesday shot and injured by an unidentified person while trying to repel attack as hostilities returned to some remote communities on the boarders of  Gombe and Adamawa states following a fresh outbreak of violence in Nyuwar which is on the Gombe State axis of the boarder.
A resident of the area told our Correspondent that tension had continued to build up Tuesday afternoon following the shooting of a Soldier whose identity is not yet disclosed while trying to repel an attack on Nyuwar community by neighbouring Waja community.
He confirmed to newsmen in Gombe late Tuesday evening through a phone call that the Soldier was seriously injured while trying to repel attacks on Nyuwar Community by neighbouring Waja community which carried out similar attack on Nyuwar and Jessu  in April last year.
It was also gathered that even when the soldier was rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment, the attack on the community continued unabated as the combine team of security operatives stationed in the community was reportedly outnumbered by the attackers.
Several houses were said to have been torched while women, children and the aged were forced to escape to neighbouring communities for refuge.
In Jessu, a neighbouring community to Nyuwar, panicking residents were reported to be hurriedly trooping out of the town for safety.
Nyuwar and Jessu, the two Lunguda communities were reportedly attacked in April last year by the Wajas forcing many residents to relocate to neighbouring communities for safety.
Efforts by our correspondent to get police reaction over the latest incident proved abortive as calls made to the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mary Obed Malum (SP), were not answered nor returned afterwards. 
As at the time of filing this report, the State Commissioner for Information Julius Ishaya Lapes told our correspondent that he was still making consultations to get the true situation but promised to get in touch as soon as he got details on the matter.