Gunmen suspected to be bandits yesterday attacked five communities in Kajuru LGA of Kaduna State and killed 25 persons while also razing down the community.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the terrorist razed several houses, livestock and valuables in the community following the attack.
Spokesman of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Luka Biniyat, in a statement on Tuesday, mentioned the villages as; Maikori, Dogon Noma, and Ungwan Doma, among others, adding that the incident happened between 1am and 2 pm on Sunday.
The statement further said 16 persons were killed in Maikori village, while the entire community was burnt down completely.
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According to the statement, an Evangelical Church Winning for All, ECWA, was burned by the attackers, and about 10 people were killed in the Dogon Noma village alone.
Biniyat also confirmed that a bomb was dropped on a compound, and the level of damage in the whole village is yet to be ascertained, as many are still missing.
The Kaduna Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Jalinge, said that a statement will be released on the incident, in due course.
Meanwhile, a Christian Leaders Association in Southern Kaduna has lamented that the area is under siege by terrorists with no clear-cut leadership direction for the people in the face of the rising insecurity which has bedevilled the area in the past two years.
This is contained in a communiqué signed by the Chairman of the Association, Apostle Emmanuel Kure, and Secretary, Reverend Yunana Tanimu, and issued after a one-day strategy meeting of notable priests of the area organised by the association and held at the Throneroom Trust Ministry, Kafanchan, yesterday.
The Communiqué, which was read during the 20th Southern Kaduna Prayer Summit, had its theme as ‘A Jerusalem Council,’ was to strategise the direction and salvation of the people of Southern Kaduna.
The communiqué condemns, in strong terms, the persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria in general, and Southern Kaduna in particular, and resolves to investigate and get to the bottom of the conflict and bring forth solutions.