At least 10 people have been killed on Thursday, in different attacks by gunmen in Kaduna state.
The gunmen killed six people including a village head in an attack on Sarari village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna state.
Although the Kaduna police command is yet to confirm the incident, the attack which occured on Thursday afternoon, left about eight people seriously injured.
According to the eyewitness, the bandits stormed the village moving from house to house and shooting the villagers indiscriminately, in the process the village head was shot.
The injured victims have been rushed to a Primary Health Centre in Uduwa town, few kilometres from the Chikun/Birnin Gwari border.
There was another attack reported in Asso.
The victims were on their way home after taking a sick family member to a hospital in Kafanchan.
Nicholas Garba, the house of representatives member representing Jema/Sanga federal constituency, who confirmed the attack in Asso said it was the third attack in the community.
The lawmaker called on the administration of Nasir el-Rufai, the governor, to show more than “passive interest” in the insecurity situation.
“This will be the third time that an attack will be carried out from the uncompleted Asso bridge,” he said.
“I am also appealing to the military task force based in Kafanchan to work harder to fish out these agents of darkness.
“Until the state is able to fish out, expose and punish the perpetrators of these heinous crimes, for so long will these criminals continue on their path of perfidy. To our communities, one cannot overemphasise the necessity for eternal vigilance.”
