Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed two worshippers
at Baptist Church, Kakau Daji, Chikun LGA of Kaduna state.
The worshippers were attacked during the church’s Sunday
service.
The gunmen were said to have surrounded the church before
they started shooting sporadically.
A yet to be ascertained number of worshippers were also
abducted from the church.
Ishaya Jangado, president of the Kaduna Baptist Convention,
confirmed the attack to TheCable.
“The incident occurred this morning but we don’t know the
exact number of people that were kidnapped yet,” he said.
Mohammad Jalige, spokesman of the Kaduna state police
command, was not reachable for comment over the incident.
Reacting, Joseph Hayab, chairman of the Kaduna state chapter
of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), described the attack as “another
sad story of how deteriorating our insecurity has become”.
“Citizens are being killed like chickens with only press
statements as consolation,” he said.
“These evil people have troubled us for too long.
“I condole the families of the Baptist denomination and
Kaduna Christians for this loss and urge our security agencies to separate war
against enemies of Nigerians from politics. No one knows who will be the next
target.”
Chikun LGA is one of the areas where telecommunications
services had been suspended by the Kaduna state government to fight banditry
and kidnappings.
The attack on the church comes months after suspected
bandits invaded the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Kaduna, abducting
121 students.
Most of the students had since been freed.
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