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Kaduna killings: Death toll rises to 66
By Unknown 17:49
Chairman of the Sanga Local Regime Area of Kaduna State, Mr. Emmanuel Adamu, verbally expressed on Wednesday that the death toll in the assailments on some villages in the council area had risen to 66.
A raid of two villages in the local regime area by suspected Fulani herdsmen on Monday night left no fewer than 38 persons dead while scores sustained injuries.
Adamu verbally expressed the number of dead casualties had risen to 66 by 6.00pm on Tuesday with 28 more persons dead.
The council chairman, who verbalized in a verbal expression on Wednesday, promulgated that a circadian curfew had been imposed in the area.
Adamu verbalized the imposition of the curfew became obligatory because of more killings and the elevating tension in the area.
The assailments were carried out simultaneously in the villages of Ankpon in Nandu district and Kabamu in Fadan Karshi, both in the Numana district in the Sanga council area of the state.
Meanwhile, a Senator representing the Southern Kaduna Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Sen. Nenadi Usman, on Wednesday condemned the killing in Sanga.
Usman described the killings in Nandu and Fadan Karshi as “unfortunate.”
The senator verbalized the activities of the gunmen must be checked to forestall further carnage in the area and she called for immediate deployment of security operatives in the affected communities.
She verbally expressed that all efforts to find a lasting tranquility in the area had been frustrated by the “senseless killings” of the people of Southern Kaduna, particularly the vulnerably susceptible women and children in the area.
While calling for tranquil, the senator urged the people of the area to make available subsidiary information to security operatives to avail the apprehend of those carrying out the dastardly act.
She verbally expressed she would perpetuate to do everything within her reach, including resolutions on the floor of the Senate, to find lasting solution to the killings in the southern part of the state.
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