Over 100 People Massacred In Southern Kaduna

Not less than 100 persons were reported massacred late on Friday night in three Southern Kaduna villages of Bondon district in Kaura local government area of the state by unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen.

Those killed were being given a mass burial at about 4.15pm on Saturday with the President of the umbrella body of the southern Kaduna people, the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union (SOKAPU), Dr. Ephraim Goje in attendance.

Communities in southern Kaduna have come under series of attack by unknown gunmen in the last two years, leaving many people killed and several property including farmland destroyed.

Kaduna state governor who condemned the attack said that the government was working closely with security agents to scale up its strategies aimed at bringing the perpetrators to book, pointing out that the government has ordered full scale investigation into the incident.

The Nation gathered that the attackers who came at about 11.30 pm on Friday night invaded Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwar Gata and Chenshyi villages all in Bondon district of Mor’oa Chiefdom of Kaura local government area shooting and set houses ablaze,.

Residents  who attempted to run for their lives were either gunned down or matched .

One of the survivors, Nuhu Moses from Chenshyi village said that the attackers were more than 40, armed with dangerous knives, guns and other sophisticated weapons, adding that over 50 people were killed in Chenshyi village alone while the houses were destroyed.

Moses said “there is no house standing. All the houses were burnt by the attackers while people who attempted to run were gunned down. I was just lucky to have escaped, but our Pastor’s wife, and kids were among the people that were butchered”.

At Ungwar Sankwai, a resident of the village, Jonathan Bako said he did not know how he managed to escaped the incident he described as Massacre.