Three persons have been killed after terrorrists suspected to be bandits attacked Manchong community in Zangon Kataf local government area of Kaduna state.
According to PSJ, the terrorists invaded the community at about 8:30 pm on Thursday and began shooting sporadically.
“The attackers didn’t spend time, they just branched shot sporadically and left.
“It seems they were on a mission to somewhere and only decided to shoot some shots here before passing,” an eyewitness said.
Recently, banditry and kidnapping have assumed an unprecedented dimension in Kaduna State. Besides seeing tens of people killed and hundreds kidnapped in the past year, bandits now take levies from farming communities to grant them access to their farms.
Although banditry is not a new scourge in Kaduna State, it was previously restricted to robbery and cattle rustling in rural communities in Birnin-Gwari, Chikun, Giwa and Igabi local government areas.
Kaduna then was only witnessing a spillover of the crime in the Kamuku, Kuyanbana and Falgore, a large forest spanning Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Zamfara and Sokoto states.
