Gunmen Attack Bauchi School, Kill Five-Year-Old Girl

 

The police spokesperson in the state, DSP Haruna Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Bauchi that the gunmen also burnt a telecommunication mast in the town.

He said they stole a private car belonging to the principal of the school.

“Unknown gunmen attacked the staff quarters of GGSS Yana, Shira Local Government Area of the state, around 2.30 a.m. on Sunday.

“They set the school bus ablaze; and in the process, a five-year-old girl was killed in the fire while they destroyed the vault of a bank,’’ he said.

According to Mohammed, a combined team of security forces are on the trail of the attackers.

NAN recalled that on April 17, the police said a team of security forces foiled an attack by some unknown gunmen on Misau town, Misau Local Government Area of the state.

Meanwhile, the police in Taraba State has said that 21 people were killed in the deadly clash between the Jukun and some Fulani herdsmen in Wukari on Thursday.

Punch correspondent gathered that the attacks had spilled to  other neighbouring villages in  Gindin Doruwa and Sukundi communities.

Though the police said only 21 people died in the attack, unnamed  Red Cross sources said that they counted more than 47 corpses brought to Wukari General Hospital.

The same source had put the death at 25, while the police said that only seven people died from the clashes.

An official of the Nigeria Red Cross, who didn’t want his name in print, told newsmen when the state acting Governor,  Alhaji Garba Umar, visited the scene on Friday, that more than 47 bodies were taken to the hospital while villagers said that 105 others had not been accounted for.

But the Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Kwaji, an Assistant Superintendent of Police,   told journalists at Wukari that 21 were killed, 24 arrested, 34 injured, and 99 houses razed but declined comment on the missing figures.