Some angry youths on Tuesday morning set the house of a farmer ablaze within the Angwa Rukuba-Etoo Baba community in the Jos area of Plateau state.
Reports say the angry youths also went to his poultry farm within the locality and looted his birds before setting the farm ablaze.
A resident of the community, Janet Haruna, who confirmed the incident in Jos on Tuesday, said the action of the youths followed an alleged killing of a security man said to be working for the farmer.
According to Haruna, the farmer’s son, who had been suspecting the security guard of stealing, was said to have caught him red-handed and started beating him, adding that in the process, the security guard collapsed and died.
The corpse of the security guard has been evacuated to the hospital.”
It was learnt that men of the state fire service had arrived in the community to stop the fire from spreading to other areas, while security operatives had been deployed to forestall further breakdown of law and order.
