By Muhammed Abubakar, Reporting
Armed bandits have pumped pellets on a bus conveying commuters including a student of Government Science Secondary School, Birnin-Gwari in Kaduna State, going to register for JAMB/UTME who was hit in the process.
Seven others were reportedly shot dead in separate bandits‘ attacks in the last 24 hours in the troubled area of the state, just as 57 others have been abducted by the assailants.
The incidents were contained in a statement issued by the Birnin Gwari Vanguard for Security and Good Governance and signed by its Chairman, Ibrahim Abubakar Nagwari in Kaduna on Saturday.
The statement noted that three other persons escaped with mild injuries, while 57 people were equally abducted.
The statement noted, “the nightmare of armed banditry along Birnin-Gwari-Kaduna highway has further deteriorated in last twenty-four hours.
“Today, around 10:00a.m, a final year student of Science Secondary School, Birnin-Gwari escaped with bullet wounds on his shoulder on his way to register for JAMB/UMTE in Kaduna.
“The dreadful armed bandits sprayed bullets on the vehicle conveying the student and others at Manini village after Kuriga along Birnin-Gwari Kaduna Highway.
“The student is awaiting surgery for the removal of the bullet on his shoulder at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital in Birnin-Gwari.
“Similarly, armed bandits killed seven people at unguwar Bula, Unguwar Dafillo and Ijinga in Randagi district, Birnin-Gwari on Saturday.
“The bandits on motorcycles numbering 50 attacked the communities around 11 o’clock in the morning on Friday and lasted for four hours, preventing people from conducting Juma’at prayers.
“The bandits, apart from killing six people on the spot, another person died this morning at Jibrin Maigwari General Hospital, while 57 people were abducted with many of them being women from the same community.
“While commending the local government authorities for taking care of the hospital bills of those injured in the attacks, we are calling on the government to, as a matter of urgency, set up a special centre for JAMB examinations in Birnin-Gwari.”
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