Gunmen kill eight people in Addu, Kaura local govt area of Kaduna state in the early hours of Tuesday, and injured many. The injured have been taken to the hospital. Meanwhile fresh waves of killings have swept through Borno, and Plateau states, leaving at least 33 persons dead. Amid the violence in the northern part of the country, the United States (U.S.) has warned its citizens against travelling to the region before September 11. The tragedy in Borno occurred yesterday morning when gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram’s members attacked a nomadic Shuwa-Arab village and shot dead 17 herdsmen.
The village, according to police sources in Maiduguri, is near Damboa where suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 18 local hunters at a market early this year. A resident of Shuwa-Arab, Madina Azaki, told The Guardian that all the slain herdsmen were her relations that had lived and reared cattle in the village for over three decades. On how the village was attacked, an anonymous resident said: “The violence commenced when attackers killed one of our herders and whisked away another to an obscure camp located some kilometres away.” In Plateau State, the killing of the six persons was done by gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen in Kungte village of Jos South Local Council. A source, who spoke with journalists on condition of anonymity, said the gunmen stormed the village at the early hours of yesterday and opened fire on the residents. It was learnt that those killed were all from two families. Confirming the incident, the state government said it had received reports of attacks on some communities in the state with great indignation.
Guardian Nigeria And Punch.
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