GUNMEN ATTACK BAUCHI SCHOOL, KILL FIVE YEAR OLD GIRL

Unknown gunmen on Sunday attacked the staff quarters of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Yana, killing a five year old girl.

A car belonging to the principal of the school was stolen.

 The five year old girl was killed in the fire as they set the school bus on fire as they destroyed the vault of a bank.

Meanwhile, the police in Taraba State has said that 21 people were killed in the deadly clash between the Jukun and some Fulani herdsmen in Wukari on Thursday.

Though the police said only 21 people died in the attack, unnamed Red Cross sources said that they counted more than 47 corpses brought to Wukari General Hospital.

An official of the Nigeria Red Cross, who didn’t want his name in print, told newsmen when the state acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, visited the scene on Friday, that more than 47 bodies were taken to the hospital while villagers said that 105 others had not been accounted for.

But the Police Public Relations Officer, Joseph Kwaji, an Assistant Superintendent of Police,  told journalists at Wukari that 21 were killed, 24 arrested, 34 injured, and 99 houses razed but declined comment on the missing figures.

SOURCE: PUNCH