At least 30 people were reported killed when gunmen attacked Naridon village in Kamaru ward, Kauru LGA of Kaduna state, on Monday morning.
The attackers reportedly stormed the village at about 1am on
Monday and opened fire indiscriminately at residents.
In a statement, Amnesty International said the attackers
pursued dozens of people who tried to escape into the bush and killed them.
“President Bola Tinubu claims he has repeatedly tasked
security agencies to end the killings so that rural communities can go to bed
with their eyes closed, but clearly nothing has changed,” the statement reads.
“The community has declared many people missing, and efforts
are ongoing to ascertain the number of people killed, while more dead bodies
are being discovered, within homes and nearby farms.
“Gory images obtained by Amnesty International show entire
families locked up and slaughtered inside their bedrooms.
“Children had their throats slit and their heads left with
massive cuts. There was blood on beds, in kitchens and on the trails of those
bleeding while trying to escape.”
Amnesty International said the attack may be one of the
deadliest recorded in villages in southern Kaduna.
The organisation said some villages in southern Kaduna had
experienced similar attacks more than five times.
“Spate of these killings is an evidence of failure of
authorities to protect the people. Inability of authorities to bring attackers
to justice is fueling impunity,” it added.
The Kaduna police command had not issued an official
statement on the attack as of the time of filing this report.
When contacted by TheCable, Mansir Hassan, the police
spokesperson in Kaduna, was not immediately available for comment.
Several calls to the mobile phone of Ibraheem Musa, the
chief press secretary (CPS) to Uba Sani, governor of Kaduna, did not go through
as his line was busy. He had not replied to the SMS sent to the line.
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