Nigeria, Jan. 22 -- Seven people were killed on Thursday morning when gunmen attacked a mining site in the Kuru community of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.

Community members said the assailants arrived at the mining site and began shooting indiscriminately.

The Berom Youth Moulders Association (BYM) confirmed the incident to PREMIUM TIMES.

The association, led by Dalyop Mwantiri, condemned the attack, describing it as heinous and barbaric.

In a statement made available to journalists in Jos and signed by Rwang Tengwong, the BYM National Publicity Secretary, the association said the victims were "peace-loving youths engaged in legitimate means of livelihood" whose lives were "cruelly and unjustly terminated".

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