Death Toll From Kaduna Attack Rises To 40

The date toll from the recent attack on Karamai community in Kaduna State has risen from 29 to 40.

Governor Nasir El-Rufai confirmed the figure on Saturday during his visit to the village in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state.

Many gunmen were said to have invaded the village in the early hours of Tuesday last week will the residents were still asleep.

During the invasion, the assailants shot sporadically and razed no fewer than 40 houses before the arrival of security operatives.

They were also reported to have ambushed a police patrol team in the area, killing a policeman in the process.

Worried about the incessant attacks in the local government, Governor El-Rufai suspended his political campaigns to visit Karamai, in company with heads of security agencies in the state.

On his arrival, he went round the community to access the level of destruction after which received a briefing from the villagers on how the incident occurred.

The governor who addressed the victims taking refuge at a primary school in the community described the attack as “man’s wickedness against his fellow being”.

He assured them that the state government would soon set up a judicial commission of inquiry into the remote and immediate causes of the recent conflict in several communities in Kajuru Local Government, with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Governor El-Rufai, however, appealed to the people to be calm and not to engage in any form of reprisal.