10 KILLED,HOUSES BURNT AS GUNMEN ATTACK KOGI COMMUNITY

“Yes, five lives were lost in the village but operatives of the police mobile force and soldiers repelled them and succeeded in killing five bandits and recovered some weapons. So far, normalcy has been restored in the area,” Janga said.

The police boss added further that, five houses and unspecified number of vehicles, tricycles, motorcycles and other properties were set ablaze by the bandits, assuring that security agents would remain on ground in Kpanche while full investigation into the incident had commenced.

Meanwhile, as at the time of this report,The identity of the attackers is yet to be ascertained. However, Kogi, like many other North-central states, has suffered communal attacks between nomadic herdsmen and farming communities