The attackers started shooting indiscriminately, attacking the villagers and in the process killed 15 persons, and injured five others
The Kaduna State Police Command on Tuesday reported the killing of 15 people by alleged bandits in Gonar Rogo village in Kufana District of Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The police vowed to arrest the culprits in a statement released by the Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, in Kaduna State.
Jalige said the command received a distress call Tuesday via DPO Kajuru that Gonar Rogo, a remote village in Kufana district, Kajuru LGA was invaded by a group of armed men on motorbikes.
He said,
“The attackers started shooting indiscriminately, attacking the villagers and in the process killed 15 persons, and injured five others”.
He explained that the Command promptly mobilized Combined Teams of PMF personnel, traditional police, in coordination with the Army and local Vigilante to the area upon receiving the intelligence.
” While we embarked on an intensive manhunt for the fleeing attackers, both the dead and the injured victims were evacuated to hospital,” he said.
According to him, in order to prevent further breakdown of law and order or reprisal, as well as the arrest of perpetrators, reinforcement had been drafted into the area for intensive combing and patrol.
He said the police commissioner, Umar Muri, was saddened by the attack, and appealed for calm as he reiterated the commitment of the command to apprehend the guilty.
“The Command calls on members of the public to continue to assist the Police with useful information that could help in addressing these challenges and for the possible arrest of these criminals,” Kajuru said.
(NAN)
