Bandits operating in the North-West geopolitical zone have again attacked Kajuru and Kachia local government areas of Kaduna State, killing eight people and injuring others.
This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday by the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, adding that the bandits barricaded the Kaduna-Kachia road around Kadanye village in Kajuru LG and opened fire on a bus as well as a truck carrying firewood.
The commissioner gave the names of those killed as Alfred Makinde (the driver of the bus), Abdulrahman Dela, Dauda Adamu, Umar Dauda and Abdulrasheed Musa while the injured three were Murtala Ibrahim, Ali Manager and Abdullahi (full name unknown).
Aruwan also said that the bandits barricaded the Kaduna-Kachia road at the Doka axis of Kajuru LGA and shot at a truck, killing the driver, while at Kachia LGA, bandits invaded a herders settlement in Inlowo village, killing one Ibrahim Haruna, before carting away 180 cows.