There was renewed attack in Kaduna yesterday as unknown gunmen numbering about ten invaded the Donga Dawa village in Gwari Local Government Area, leaving twenty four people dead at their wake.
The gunmen who allegedly disguised as police officers were said to have opened fire on worshipers coming back from the mosque while others were attacked in their homes.
The Kaduna police chief, Olufemi Adenaike, who confirmed the casualty figure, said already four gunmen have been arrested.
There has however being mixed reaction over the sordid incident; while some alleged the gunmen were on reprisal mission after being dislodged from the village, others maintain the men were armed robbers.
The military has denied involvement as reported by some international media.
According to a statement by the Defence Headquarters Director of Information, Col. M.M. Yerima, “The attention of the Defence Headquarters has been drawn to the unsubstantiated claims by CNN and Aljazeera alleging that the Nigerian Military carried out an early morning attack on Muslim worshippers in a mosque at Dogo Dawa, a village near Birnin Gwari in Kaduna State, where twenty people were allegedly killed by unknown gunmen."...
"The Defence Headquarters wishes to state categorically in the interest of the larger society that no member of the Nigerian Armed Forces was involved in the said attack which occurred in the early hours of Sunday the 14th October 2012.”
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