Suspected Fulani militia has killed a 60-year-old widow, a mother of 6 children and a 56-year-old man in Manyi-Mashin village, Zamandabo ward, in Atyap Chiefdom, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The alleged fatal attack on the community took place in the early hours of Friday, 11th September 2020.
This is contained in a statement issued by the National Publicity Officer, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, Luka Binniyat.
Binniyat said the suspected Fulani militias burnt down almost all the houses in the village, looting and carting away valuables.
The statement explained that though men of Operation Safe Haven promptly responded, the militia fled before their arrival.
Recall that Fulani militia on the 8th of September, 2020 laid ambush on three Atyap youths from Atakmawei village in Zamandabo Ward in Atyap Chiefdom. The three young farmers were said to have gone to work in their Sugar cane farm about a kilometre from their village.
It said that armed herdsmen came from hiding and struck, descending on them with daggers and machetes.
