KANO, (AFP) – Two people were killed and three injured following an attack by unknown gunmen in a community in Kano town where 400 had been killed in post-election violence in April, police said Monday.
“We received report of an attack by 10 gunmen on the home of the chief of Bajju community in which two were shot and killed, including a five-year-old boy, and three seriously injured,” Kaduna State police spokesman Aminu Lawal told AFP.
He said the incident happened on Sunday night in Christian-dominated Bajju village outside the town of Zonkwa in southern Kaduna State where post-election violence in April had left at least 400 dead.
The police spokesman added that the attackers, dressed in black, fired sporadically in the compound, adding that some 30 bullet shells were recovered after the attack.
“We have arrested one suspect who is assisting us with our investigation and a team of policemen deployed to the village is still on the look-out for the attackers,” Lawal said, refusing to say whether the attack was linked to the April unrest.
The victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the April vote sparked deadly ethnic and sectarian riots in Zonkwa in which some 400 people, mainly Muslim residents, were killed with thousands displaced, according to rights groups.
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“We received report of an attack by 10 gunmen on the home of the chief of Bajju community in which two were shot and killed, including a five-year-old boy, and three seriously injured,” Kaduna State police spokesman Aminu Lawal told AFP.
He said the incident happened on Sunday night in Christian-dominated Bajju village outside the town of Zonkwa in southern Kaduna State where post-election violence in April had left at least 400 dead.
The police spokesman added that the attackers, dressed in black, fired sporadically in the compound, adding that some 30 bullet shells were recovered after the attack.
“We have arrested one suspect who is assisting us with our investigation and a team of policemen deployed to the village is still on the look-out for the attackers,” Lawal said, refusing to say whether the attack was linked to the April unrest.
The victory of President Goodluck Jonathan in the April vote sparked deadly ethnic and sectarian riots in Zonkwa in which some 400 people, mainly Muslim residents, were killed with thousands displaced, according to rights groups.
THE GUNMEN ARE STILL THE SAME BOKO ARAM TERRORIST DISPLAYED IN ANOTHER FORM ALL IWANT TO SAY CONCERNING THIS NOTORIOUS GROUP IS THAT GOD IS GOING TO BRING HIS JUDGEMENT AGAINSTTHEM SINCE THEY BELIEVE THAT KNOWONE CAN SILENT THEM THE LORD SHALL BLOW THEM AWAY LIKE CHAFF BEFORE THE WIND BOTH THEM AND THEIR SPONSORAL AND THEIR FAMILLY SHALL NOT KNOW PEACEIN JESUS NAME AMEN
ReplyDeleteEven Israel who are God's chosen people do not rely on prayer to God alone for their protection. They arm themselves and defend themselves and God gives them victory over their enemies. I guess Nigerians must be more special to God than Israel since they always pray and do nothing to protect themselves.
ReplyDeletetwo people were killed in kano and the kaduna state police command gives briefing. Is that how our police force function now? Vanguard should tell us where this inicident happened kano or kaduna state?
ReplyDeleteThe government set up a panel to look into the root cause of the pre election violence in the north and made a 83 years old man its chairman. The working time of that panel to submit their report was three months, and it well over three months now nothing have been heard about the panel?
If the government cannot protect nigerian,s they should share what they are spending on security votes to all of us so that we can protect ourselves. Enough of we are on top of the situation speech from the police and the government setting up panels upon panels whose findings are never implemented by the government. How many nigerians will have to die before the government can come to our rescue? While their wives and kids are given the best of protections, they left other nigerians to be killed like fun.