Adekunle Adeleke

JALINGO, Nigeria – Gunmen in their number killed a businesswoman and a clergyman in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s northeastern state of Taraba, police said on Friday.

The incident involving the businesswoman happened at about midnight on Friday 6th December 2024 – in the Mayo Dasa area of Jalingo, Taraba State capital, according to a local broadcaster.

The gunmen invaded the victim’s compound and used machetes to break the windows of the house, Taraba State Police Command’s spokesman Abdullahi Usman told Channels Television.

“She was reading in her room, preparatory for an examination she was writing, and all of a sudden they opened fire on her, shot her at the back which penetrated and came out through the stomach,” Usman said.

”After breaking the windows, while in fear the occupants of the house stepped out to be whisked away and surprisingly they did not take anyone along with them.”

He said the gunmen took away no pin.

The second incident, according to the police spokesman, occurred in the Jerbanbur area of Jalingo.

The gunmen reportedly opened fire on the clergyman and left without picking anything from his house or kidnapping other occupants left.

Usman revealed that the two victims passed on while being attended to in their hospital beds.

He said the attack was strange as the gunmen in their usual move kidnap their victim and sought ransom after that.

According to him, the police have already launched a discrete investigation into the incident to unravel the perpetrators of the heinous crime.

While condoling the family, the police encouraged them to seek solace in God as all hands will be on deck to unearth those behind the act.

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