Bandits on Thursday night stormed Sabo Angwan Bulus in Kaduna and killed some residents.
TheLeadng reports that the bandits arrived the area on motorcycles and ransacked the community.
Benjamin Yunana Maigari, a grassroots politician, on Friday morning said his cousin was killed in the attack.
He also said that the terrorists abducted some members of his uncle’s family, alongside numerous other residents.
“They were about 50 on motorbikes, each bike rider carried a passenger and they all carried AK-47 guns,” Musa Richifa, another eyewitness, told this newspaper.
He said he climbed to the top of a tree when he saw the large number of motorcycle riders coming into Sabo, and saw the attackers loot shops and shoot people who were fleeing.
The Kaduna Government is yet to react officially to this latest attack.
Banditry attacks in Kaduna are becoming increasingly worrisome. On several occasions, bandits have kidnapped schoolchildren in various parts of the state. Other victims of their kidnapping-for-ransom scheme range across all social classes, from politicians and members of their families to imams, clergymen, security guards and farmers.
According to the Wisconsin-based Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED), one of the world’s most reliable conflict data aggregators, bandits killed more than 2,600 civilians in 2021, an increase of over 250% from 2020.
This number dwarfs that of civilian deaths credited to Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in the same year.
830 people were abducted by bandits between July and September 2021 in Kaduna state alone, according to figures from the state government.
