Gunmen Attack Kaduna Village, Kill 14, Injure 21

Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Sunday night attacked Ungwan Pah ll Gwandara in the Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing 14 persons.

During the attack, 21 persons reportedly sustained varying degrees of injury from gunshots and machete cuts.

Although, the state Police Command had yet to confirm the attack, a government source said troops had been deployed in the area, Punch reports.

The state Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, condemned the attack, saying that criminal elements must be stopped from killing the people or causing division among them.

It was gathered that five bodies of the victims had been deposited in a mortuary in the late Ibrahim Yakowa General Hospital, Kafanchan, the headquarters of the council while the injured were receiving medical attention at the same hospital.

An eyewitness said nine corpses were still left at Jagindi. He said the people were rounding off prayers after wedding when the attackers stormed the area, shooting at everybody.

“They shot sporadically and escaped,” he said.

The Vice-Chairman of Jema’a LG, Mr Milkah Ngboni, accompanied by security operatives, visited the community to assess the situation.

Ngboni confirmed the death of five persons and told reporters he was on his way to Jagindi to get details on the attack.

He said security men had been deployed in the affected village to fish out the attackers.

El-Rufai’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Samuel Aruwan, said in the statement that the governor had directed Jema’a Local Government Council and the State Emergency Management Agency to, as a matter of urgency, work towards taking care of the injured.