7 killed, 14 injured in S’Kaduna attack
Suspected
Fulani herdsmen yesterday killed seven people in Yangal village, Zangon
Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, with 14 others critically
injured.
National Mirror gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday night when Yangal residents gathered to mark the death of one Mama Hauwa Bello, 87.
Sole administrator of Zangon Kataf council area, Jonathan Asake, told newsmen in Zonkwa, the council’s headquarters, that he received a distress call around 11pm informing him that armed Fulani men and an unarmed accomplice attacked Yangal.
Asake said on getting to the scene he saw the victims and helped to evacuate five corpses and 12 injured persons to St. Luis Hospital, Zonkwa.
“I reached Yangal village around 12am, and met scores of angry youths wielding sticks and knives. They even wanted to descend on me for coming late. I was told an old woman had passed on and was buried. That it was the usual tradition for grandchildren to celebrate any deceased that passed on at the age of 80,” he said.
He added that the villagers sighted two Fulani men around 9pm at the celebration venue and one of them was holding a gun.
Meanwhile, Governor, Mukhtar Yero has condemned the attack on innocent people of Kamantan community in Yangal village.
In a statement by his Media Aide, Ahmed Maiyaki, the governor said the attack was an apparent attempt by miscreants to cause confusion and heighten tension among the peaceful people of the state.
The governor, however, directed the state’s Emergency Management Agency to immediately move to the affected community to provide necessary support to the victims.
He also called on people in the affected community to remain calm as security agencies were already investigating the matter with the aim of bringing the perpetrators to book, adding that adequate security personnel had also been deployed in the area.
National Mirror gathered that the incident occurred on Tuesday night when Yangal residents gathered to mark the death of one Mama Hauwa Bello, 87.
Sole administrator of Zangon Kataf council area, Jonathan Asake, told newsmen in Zonkwa, the council’s headquarters, that he received a distress call around 11pm informing him that armed Fulani men and an unarmed accomplice attacked Yangal.
Asake said on getting to the scene he saw the victims and helped to evacuate five corpses and 12 injured persons to St. Luis Hospital, Zonkwa.
“I reached Yangal village around 12am, and met scores of angry youths wielding sticks and knives. They even wanted to descend on me for coming late. I was told an old woman had passed on and was buried. That it was the usual tradition for grandchildren to celebrate any deceased that passed on at the age of 80,” he said.
He added that the villagers sighted two Fulani men around 9pm at the celebration venue and one of them was holding a gun.
Meanwhile, Governor, Mukhtar Yero has condemned the attack on innocent people of Kamantan community in Yangal village.
In a statement by his Media Aide, Ahmed Maiyaki, the governor said the attack was an apparent attempt by miscreants to cause confusion and heighten tension among the peaceful people of the state.
The governor, however, directed the state’s Emergency Management Agency to immediately move to the affected community to provide necessary support to the victims.
He also called on people in the affected community to remain calm as security agencies were already investigating the matter with the aim of bringing the perpetrators to book, adding that adequate security personnel had also been deployed in the area.
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