Reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has it that bandits have killed a traditional title holder, the Ardo of Birni and Kewaye of Zazzau Emirate, Alhaji Shuaibu Mohammed, and his four children.
The incident happened last night at about 10p.m in Dorayi village of Zaria Local Government Area, Kaduna State.
The bandits numbering five also rustled 100 cattle belonging to the deceased.
The wife of the deceased, Malama Halima Shuaibu, told newsmen after the funeral of the victims that the bandits shot her husband in the head.
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‘Ardo was brought out of his bedroom and shot twice on his head, and he died instantly.
‘The bandits went from room-to-room in the compound and killed my four children who are married with children.
‘The victims are Adamu Shuaibu, Musa Shuaibu, Abubakar Shuaibu and Ibrahim Haruna.’
The only survivor of the attack among the Ardo’s children, Abdurrahman Shuaibu, said the terrorists shot two other people on their way out of the village.
This is coming barely 48 hours after it was reported that Bandits shot one and abducted six residents of Ungwan Maaji, New Millennium City in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Among the abducted were a housewife, her house help, and an Imam who was leading the Muslim prayers in the community.
‘The bandits attacked another house on the same street, where they abducted four other persons. Two other persons discussing outside their house were also abducted, but managed to escape through a stream at the back of the community,’ an eye witness said.
The Imam of the area said he was yet to return home after leading the ‘Isha’i’ prayer usually done around 8:00pm when the gunmen stormed the community.
‘I was picked in the mosque, then they broke into two other houses and picked six people. While they were breaking the second house, myself, another neighbor, the woman and her house help kidnapped from the first house were asked to lie down on the bare floor” , he narrated.
‘After the bandits broke into the second house and picked four people, we became eight, then they started leading us out of the community. On getting to the stream at the far end of the community, the two of us picked outside, escaped while they were attempting to make us cross the stream.
‘The bandits were small boys. I think the eldest of them should not be more than 20 years old.”
Another resident of the area, who was said to be returning home in his car, was reportedly shot by the bandits and his car with signs of bullet shots was left at the scene of attack.