Residents said Tuesday's attack followed the killing of a cattle herder by suspected vigilante groups from Wamba in the neighbouring Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State.
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The convener, Birnin Gwari- Niger inter-border Community for Peace and Development, Ishaq Kasai, while speaking to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday, alleged that the vigilante attack on the cattle herder was carried out to scuttle a peace deal with bandits that had brought relative peace to the Birnin-Gwari Emirate.
“Despite ongoing efforts at peace and reconciliation, we regret to report a deeply disturbing resurgence of violent attacks in the Area, recent of which involves the killings of 5 innocent farmers in Kakangi Community of the Western Part of Birnin-Gwari LGA of Kaduna State. “In addition, three individuals were shot and severely injured, and at the time of this statement, several community members remain unaccounted for following the ambush launched by armed bandits on various farms in Kakangi,” Mr Kasai said.Kaduna State Government,
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