Gunmen on Monday killed 14 persons and injured many others in an attack on Ashim village in the Takad chiefdom of Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Alexander Iya, the Chairman of the local government’s Interim Management Committee, who briefed newsmen on the incident, said the gunmen stormed the village “around 6am” in a massive attack.
Iya said most of the victims were women and children, whose corpses had been deposited at the Kafanchan General Hospital.
Iya said: “Those injured are being treated at the Kaura General Hospital.”
He said that the attackers also burnt many houses and destroyed crops.
Iya, however, disclosed that one of the invaders was killed by security personnel deployed to contain the situation.
The chairman appealed to the people to remain calm and avoid the temptation to take the law into their hands.
He assured them that government had deployed enough personnel to secure the communities.
Efforts to reach the Divisional Police Officer of the area were not successful, but a military personnel deployed to contain the situation, described the attack as “very serious”.
The attack on Southern Kaduna had been sustained by the invaders for several months.
At a time, the Christian Association of Nigeria put the number of those killed in the area at 808.
NAN.
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