The residents of Sarari village near Kuriga town in Birnin Gwari
Local Government Area of Kaduna State, were on Thursday afternoon
attacked by bandits who killed the village head and five others, in an
incident which happened around 2 p.m. and left about eight people
injured.
According to PREMIUM Times, an injured victim identified simply as
Henry who was shot on the leg, confirmed the death of their village
head, and said the bandits stormed the village, going house to house
shooting people.
“I don’t know where they came from we were just sitting down when we started hearing gun shots from all directions.
“They came on motorcycles in large number. They go house to
house shooting people. Our village head and five other people were
killed. I was shot on the leg while trying to escape,” he said during a telephone interview.
Speaking further, Henry gave the names of the dead as Sule Sarari,
the 60-years-old village head, ‘Lado, Yunusa, Jonah, Tela and one other
person.’
The victims were rushed to a Primary Health Centre in Oduwa town, few kilometres from where the incident occurred.
The nurse in charge of the PHC where the victims are receiving
treatment, Silas Ayuba, confirmed that six bodies were brought to the
clinic.
“Yes we have six bodies right now at the clinic; all males.
Eight people were injured and we are doing our best to stabilise their
condition,” he said in a telephone interview.