Tears And Despair As Over 100 Victims Of Kaduna Massacre Get Mass Burial

At least 110 persons, mainly women and children, were given mass burial in several regions of Southern Kaduna yesterday afternoon, June 26, 2014, Thursday.

          

All of the deceased were killed in a series of ethnic attacks on at least seven settlements of Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The attackers, suspected to be Fulanis, burnt down houses and slaughtered dozens of villagers.
According to a local resident, Barrister Sunday Ugah, who sent some images and notes to SaharaReporters, many people are still missing in the area. The number of wounded people reached 300, while the number of displaced people will be even more shocking.
Ugah send some gruesome and unpublished pictures and described the situation in the following way:
I was born about 40 years ago, and I have never seen this kind of ethnic cleansing in my life, we have a family that all their 12 children were mutilated to death.

The mass burial was also confirmed by LGA Chairman, Emmanuel Adamu, and the National Chairman of Ninzom Progressive Youth, Bezard Wuyah. The men confirmed this information in a telephone interview with Vanguard.

Wuyah revealed that an unnamed Igbo trader and his wife were among the victims, who were laid to eternal rest in a parcel of land between Gwantu Kurmi and Kobin near the local government.