About eight persons have been killed following an attack on Saturday night by Fulani militias in Ungwan Wakili, Atyap Chiefdom, Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
It was gathered that the immediate intervention of security operatives saved the situation and brought it under control.
The source explained that trouble started on Saturday with a misunderstanding between security operatives and a Fulani man at a checkpoint at Ungwan Wakili, which led to the Fulani man and one police officer being shot
According to him, “The situation later escalated in the evening when a group of youths went for fishing and were attacked, one person was macheted to death by suspected Fulani militias.”