2,000 persons displaced by Kaduna attacks – SEMA

The Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday said it had registered 2,000 persons displaced by the attack on three villages in the Kaura Local Government Area, the News Agency of Nigeriareports.

The Executive Secretary of SEMA, Mr. Dogo Makama, told newsmen in Kaduna that the agency had assessed the needs of those affected and would soon offer assistance to them.

He said the agency discovered during the assessment that 240 houses were burnt, 119 people killed, and 22 persons injured and hospitalised.

Makama said the 2,000 displaced persons had been camped at the Bandon Community Secondary School, adding that the agency would this week distribute relief materials to them.

He listed some of the items to be distributed to include maize, rice, garri, sugar, palm oil, groundnut oil, bathing soap, washing soap, mattress, blankets, salt, rubber plates and buckets.

Makama assured the residents of the affected communities that SEMA would do its best to facilitate their quick return home.

Gunmen had on Saturday, attacked residents of Angwan Gata, Tyeken and Angwan Sankwai, all in the Kaura area of the state.