GUNMEN KILL 16 IN BAUCHI

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About nine persons on Sunday night in Zango area, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, were killed by unknown gunmen Seven persons were, however, luckier as they merely sustained gunshot injuries. They are presently receiving treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, (ATBUTH), Bauchi.An eyewitness told THISDAY that "the attackers targeted the residence of one person where people used to assemble in the evening to play cards and gamble. They came in a tricycle (keke NAPEP) and started shooting sporadically, killing five people on the spot and injuring several people who were later  taken to the hospital. Four others have also died between yesterday night and today.’’

The deceased victims are Ayuba Shehu, Freeman Lumi, Godiya Rimi, Ishaku Samson, Joseph Komo, Inna Zamba, Samuel  Mutashi, Ishaya Jauro and Haruna Ayuba, while the survivors are  Ajiya Kimsa, Yakubu Galibi, Ma’aji Sarauta, Balam Ishaku and Joshua Hassan.

The source said the gunmen were four in number, each carrying sophisticated weapons, adding that the attack had ethnic-cleansing undertone as the people attacked were from Sayawa chiefdom.

Kimsa, while speaking to journalists from his hospital bed, blamed the attack on ‘’the present administration’s insensitivity and insincerity in putting an end to the unending attacks targeted at the Sayawa people of Tafawa Balewa Local Government Area of the state.’’

He appealed to security agents in the state  ‘’to fish out the culprits and make them face the law of the land over their callous and satanic activities.’’

Bauchi State Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Lawi Pokti,  described the attack as not only shocking and unbelievable but barbaric and unfortunate.

He urged the state Governor, Mallam  Isa Yuguda, to fish out the perpetrators of the dastardly act immediately to justify people’s confidence in his administration.