the scene of the incident.
No fewer than 19 people have been killed in fresh and
reprisal attacks in Giwa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna
State.
The killings and counter-killings occurred at Kaya community
which shares a boundary with Hayin Kaura village in Dandume LGA of
Katsina State.
Mr Samuel Aruwan, who is the Commissioner for Internal Security
and Home Affairs in Kaduna, confirmed the killings in a statement
on Sunday.
He disclosed that gunmen, numbering about 50 and armed with
AK-47 rifles, stormed Kaya town at about 6:30pm on Saturday and
began shooting sporadically.
According to security reports, the violence began on Friday last
week when bandits attacked Kaya town and kidnapped some locals,
including two married women.
But the bandits were fiercely pursued by a combined team of
volunteers from Kaya and Hayin Kaura, in keeping with their
practice of supporting security efforts in their respective
communities.
attackers on January 2, 2020.
In the course of the confrontation, the bandits kidnapped and
killed one Shamsu Umar, a leader of the Kaya volunteers whose
remains were later found on Saturday after a search operation in
the forest.
On the same day, according to the commissioner, unidentified
persons came across some herders and in apparent retaliation for
the death of Umar, killed four of them while 11 more people were
killed during the attack and reprisals.
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Three unidentified corpses said to be drivers in transit from
Funtua, Katsina State were also recovered, while nine persons
sustained bullet wounds and were taken to the Ahmadu Bello
University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) in Zaria.
community attacked by gunmen on January 2, 2020.
Aruwan disclosed that several shops, five vehicles, and some
motorcycles were also burnt by the attackers.
He noted that troops of the Nigerian Army and police personnel
were quickly deployed to the location, along with an air platform
of the Nigerian Air Force.
In his reaction, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, who was
involved in coordinating responses to the attack on Saturday night,
condoled with the families that lost their loved ones and prayed
for the repose of their souls.
He appealed earnestly for recourse to the law as the main
solution to the violence, killings, and counter-killings by
aggrieved individuals and groups.
The governor who was worried about the incident asked the
security agencies to carry out extensive investigations into the
circumstances the led to the killings.
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