A survivor of the massacre in Woro community in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, Danjuma Bagu, said he was yet to reach his wife and six children, a week after gunmen attacked the community.
The incident occurred last Tuesday. Community leaders and residents said on Sunday that the death toll had risen to 150, as search and rescue efforts were still ongoing.
Speaking from his hospital bed at the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH), where he is being treated for wounds he sustained in the attack, Bagu revealed that he fled during the attack but has not been able to contact his family.
“As I speak with you now, I don’t know if my wife and six children are alive. I have not heard from them since Tuesday, after the incident. I also lost my phone,” he said.
Bagu, who is an indigene of Jos, had come to Woro for farming. He said the gunmen, numbering about 200 and riding motorcycles, stormed the community and began shooting sporadically.
He appealed to the government to assist victims of the attack, saying they had been left with nothing.
