100 Christians Killed In Kaduna Villages Buried In Maass Grave , 48 Hospitalized

                                

                   

Over 100 persons, mostly children and women, killed  between Friday and Saturday by yet-to-be identified gunmen in three villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwar Gata and Chenshyi, all  in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State were buried in a mass grave on Sunday.

 

Gunmen on Friday night and Saturday morning wielding sophisticated weapons  had killed 100 persons in Ungwan Gata, Sankwai and Tekum villages of Bondong District, and injured over 48 persons who are presently hospitalized in different hospitals in the state and Plateau states.

However, the umbrella body of the Southern Kaduna people, Southern Kaduna Peoples Union on Sunday at a press conference put the figure of those killed as 114.

Their president, Ephraim Goje who addressed the press warned that the people would have no choice than to defend themselves if the government failed to do so.

In his reaction, the Secretary of Kaduna State Chapter of Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Sunday Ibrahim described the killings as “barbaric and unjustifiable.”

He said, “We are mourning and condemned in strong term, these serial killings. As Christians we are not preaching violence but urging government and security agencies to rise up and face reality of things. We are hearing uncomplimentary remarks from some quarters and it is unfortunate but may their souls rest in peace.”

Also, the Southern Kaduna People in the Diaspora-USA has tasked Federal and state governments to arrest perpetrators of the killings.