No fewer than fourteen people have been killed in a fresh attack at Mado village, Mabushi, in Atyap chiefdom of Zangon-Kataf local government area of Kaduna State.
According to reports, some houses were torched in the attack, which was launched on Saturday night.
Speaking to newsmen on the development, the Chairman, Atyap Chiefdom Peace and Security Partnership Committee, John Bala Gora, wondered the reason for the incessant attacks despite efforts at restoring peace.
He also renewed his appeal to security operatives to redouble efforts to secure the “defenceless and peace-loving people of the chiefdom”.
In a reprisal attack, a Fulani settlement in Kankada, Madakiya District, in Bajju chiefdom in the same Zangon Kataf LGA, was completely burnt down yesterday morning.
A female resident of the torched settlement, Halima Haruna, who was rescued and taken to Zonkwa Divisional Police station, told newsmen that the attackers surrounded their community in the early hours of yesterday.
Also, a wife to the Ardo of Kankada, Haruna, said she saw two corpses, a man and a woman, on her way to hide somewhere.
In the past one week, four villages in Atyap chiefdom have come under separate attacks with scores killed, many injured and several houses burnt.
Confirming both the incidents, the State’s Police Public Relations Officer, (PPRO), ASP Muhammed Jalige, said policemen have been deployed in the attacked community.
He called on the people of Zangon-Kataf in particular, and the people of southern Kaduna in general, to stop taking laws into their hands.
