The Police Command in Kaduna State on Tuesday confirmed the killing of 15 persons by suspected bandits in Gonar Rogo village in Kufana District of Kajuru Local Government Area of the State.
The Police, in a statement issued in Kaduna State by the Command Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige, vowed to apprehend the culprits.
“The attackers started shooting indiscriminately, attacking the villagers and in the process killed 15 persons, and injured five others,” he said.He explained that, on the receipt of the information, the Command promptly mobilized Combined Teams of PMF personnel, conventional Police in synergy with the Army and the local Vigilante to the area.
According to him, reinforcement had been drafted to the area for intensive combing and patrol, with a view to forestalling further breakdown of law and order or reprisal, as well as the arrest of perpetrators.
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