Yusuf Bello| Thirteen members of the same family, one other person, and six others were on Wednesday morning killed by gunmen who invaded Agbudu community in Koton-Karfe Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Kogi state police commissioner, Ede Ayuba, confirmed the attack to journalists in Lokoja, the state capital at a press briefing.
Ayuba said, “Fourteen people were killed and six people were fatally injured. The sad thing is that out of these 14 dead bodies that were brought out, 13 are from one family.”
“But in the interim, I want to give you that assurance that we are not going to relent in our efforts.
“We will make sure that we get to the root of anything that is behind the killings around that zone.”
The commissioner who said he dispatched police operatives to the area including the DPO as soon as he got wind of the situation, however, explained that the gunmen fled the area before the arrival of security personnel.
Ayuba pledged that the State Police Command would not relent in its efforts to tracking the perpetrators of the crime as some preliminary investigations had discovered a long-standing communal feud in the community.
He assured that the killers will be brought to book.
The cover pix is from a previous Kogi attack and was used to illustrate the story
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