Kano killing: Police, CAN disagree over toll
Kano State Police command and the state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) yesterday issued conflicting figures of factory workers killed over 10 days ago by unknown gunmen at Shekar Maidaki in Kumbotso local government area of the state.
Kano State CAN chairman, Bishop Ransome Bello, was quoted in the media on Thursday claiming that 13 people had been killed in the attack by gunmen, who drove to the area in a cab on Saturday 23, February, 2013.
Bello, according to reports, said the attackers had stormed a compound occupied by the factory staff and separated men from women and children, before killing the men.
But the state police command reacted to the story at a morning press conference yesterday; saying only eight people were killed in the attack.
The state commissioner of police, Alhaji Musa Daura, said the command had received “distress call” on at about 2200hrs on the said date that “unknown gunmen [have] attacked and killed innocent people in Shekar-Maidaki in the suburb of Kumbotso local government area.”
He said, following the incident, the command immediately deployed armed security men to the scene to arrest of the perpetrators of the attack, before they escaped.
“The security agents discovered eight people were killed and a reasonable number of people were arrested and brought to the station for investigation. The command will make it public, the outcome of the investigation,” he said.
However, in a swift reaction to the figure released by the police, Bishop Bello, maintained that 13 people were killed.
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