Crime & SecurityLocal GovernmentNewsFourteen Persons Confirmed Dead, 6 Injured in Kogi Attack

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Fourteen people have been confirmed dead, 6 injured in Agbudu community, Kogi state after some unknown armed men stormed the community on Wednesday.

According to the state police commissioner, Ede Ayuba, who disclosed this while briefing journalists at the command headquarters in Lokoja, he was informed about the incident at about 2: 00 a.m.

Mr Ayuba said that 13 of the slain victims were from the same family.

“This morning around 2 a.m., my Area Commander called me to report that he received information that there was an attack on the Agbudu community.

“I called the SSA on Security of the Local Government in Koton-Karfe and I said that before I get there, he should mobilise his vigilante men to assist the police – the DPO and the Area Commander in the area – for them to assess the place and see what assistance they could render.”

Mr Ayuba also said that the vigilante officials and the police officers left immediately and by the time they got there, the hoodlums had carried out their operation and left.

“I was there and I was part of those who picked some of the dead bodies we are talking about.”

“Yes, 14 people were killed and about six others were fatally injured. The saddening thing is that out of the 14 dead bodies that were brought out, 13 were from one family.

“In that family, it is only one person that survived. His uncle, his mother, his uncle’s wife, his younger brother, his senior brother’s wife, his wife and all his children were killed,” he said.

Beloved John (Staff Writer)

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