Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufa’i has declared a 24-hour curfew in Jema’a and Kaura local government areas.
The declaration followed the reported attack on Southern Kaduna communities by gunmen attack on Sunday night.
No fewer than 15 persons were said to have been killed during the attack in Kaura alone.
A source from Kaura reported the gunmen attacked Agban Kagoro, Kaura local government area of the State and killed about 15 people. The source could not however ascertain the number of people injured and houses razed.
The source said: “I was able to count and get about 15 people killed. There is the likelihood that there are those killed in their houses while others could have died in the buses as a result of gun wounds they sustained”.
He added that he could not get the number of those injured and the houses burnt by the attackers, saying that the destruction made was so terrifying.
