Not less than six people have been reportedly killed in separate fresh attacks in Bakin Kogi, Kaninkon chiefdom, Jama’a local government area of Southern Kaduna in Kaduna State. The killings occurred barely a day after the state governor, Nasir El-Rufai held a meeting with Fulani leaders on lasting peace in the state.
The two attacks were said to have been carried out around 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on Thursday by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen.
According to The Guardian, a member of the security committee in the community, Auta Maurice, who confirmed the attacks on telephone, said the gunmen, numbering about 10, were wearing army and mobile police uniforms.
Maurice said three people were killed in the bush when they went to cut wood for the roofing of their houses while three others were killed at a local mining site on the hills.
He said four people were injured and were taken to the hospital in Kafanchan. The police confirmed the incident as ASP Aliyu Mukhtar, spokesman of the state of police command later responded on telephone calls that two of those killed were women and four men.
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