Southern Kaduna boils again, 14 killed, buildings razed

It was another orgy of violence in Southern Kaduna between Saturday night and Sunday morning as gunmen attacked Mado village, Mabushi in the Atyap Chiefdom of the Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, killing 14 people.

Several people were also injured in the attack and scores of other residents rendered homeless as their houses were burnt down.

In a reprisal attack, a Fulani settlement in Kankada, Madakiya District in Bajju Chiefdom of Zangon Kataf Local Government Area, was completely burnt down on Sunday morning.

A female resident of the torched settlement, Halima Haruna, who was rescued and taken to Zonkwa Divisional Police Station, told Daily Trust that the attackers surrounded their community in the early hours of Sunday.

A wife to the Ardo of Kankada, Haruna, said she saw two corpses, man and a woman, on her way to hide somewhere.

“We were forced to run and hide somewhere while some of our people ran to the bush for their safety.”

“We don’t know what happened to them as I am speaking with you now, we spent three hours before the security arrived and took us to the Police Station here in Zonkwa. Our houses were totally razed,” she said

She said the attackers told them that they wanted to take revenge on what happened to them Saturday night somewhere around Samaru Kataf, “which we know nothing about.”

Four villages in Atyap chiefdom have come under attacks in the past one week with scores killed and many injured; several houses were torched.

Police Public Relations Officer for Kaduna State, ASP Muhammed Jalige, said the police had moved in for maximum protection of inhabitants of the attacked community.