The quick intervention of security agents on Monday averted what would been another bloody clash between natives and Hausa settlers in Jos North local Government of Plateau State.
But the clash left 10 persons injured.
An uneasy calm has pervaded the State following attacks launched in Bassa and Riyom local Government areas by herdsmen, which claimed many lives and left building burnt.
The herders also destroyed massive farmlands belonging to the natives.
The Nation learnt the prompt intervention of men of the Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) prevented the clash from degenerating into a bloody one.
A source close to the scene of the incident at Naraguta disclosed the Hausas in the early hours of Monday discovered a road was being diverted to a Muslim burial ground at Yelwa Zangam in the community and tried to stop those digging the water way beside the cemetery.
It was gathered there was a serious altercation, which attracted other people within the community, leading to fisticuffs where ten people sustained various degrees of injuries.
It was further gathered the men of OPSH, who arrived at the nick of time saved the situation from degenerating into another blood fight and snowballed to the city.
Councillor of the ward, Hon. Yusuf Ali, who confirmed the incident, alleged the natives were trying to divert a road close to the Muslim burial ground to a safer place and the Hausas perceived it as a ploy to encroach into the cemetery.
Plateau Police spokesman ASP Gabriel Ubah told The Nation: “I am aware of the incident but yet to get the full details at the moment. As soon I get it, I would not hesitate furnish you”.
