Five people, including a 10-year-old herder, have been killed in separate attacks by bandits on Zango-Kataf local government area of Kaduna State.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan disclosed this in a statement Saturday evening.
He said the attacks were carried out around the Maduachi forest and Kurmin-Masara along Bakin Kogi in Atyap chiefdom.
Aruwan said the assailants also attacked the Jankasa General Area Ground – the boundary between Zangon Kataf and Kaura Local Government – and shot one man dead on his farm.
“Ungwan Rana in Zonzon District was also attacked with a resident dying from gunshot wounds just as one other person lost his life at Ungwan Gaiya Village,” he said.
The Commissioner said the bandits awere later repelled by a combined team of soldiers and the Police.
