Barely 24 hours after about nine persons were feared killed while seven others received various degrees of injuries from gunshots by unknown gunmen, Bauchi witnessed another black Monday as gunmen yet to be identified Monday night shot at a former Comptroller General of Prisons, Alhaji Ibrahim Jarma, killed one warder and injured one in Azare town, headquarters of Katagum local government area of Bauchi state.A reliable family source told our correspondent that Alhaji Ibrahim Jarma came out from the mosque after night prayer, when he was shot in his arm and leg.
Greenwich News investigations revealed that the gunmen, who were two in number, in the process opened fire on his security guard and killed one warder and injured another one.
Speaking on the incident, some residents of the area who spoke on phone with our correspondent said they heard sporadic gunshots which caused pandemonium making many people to abandon their homes and run for safety.
All efforts to get Bauchi State Police Commissioner Mohammed Ladan failed because he did not pick repeated calls to his phone up to the time of filing this report.
However, our source at the state police command confirmed the attack but noted that the former comptroller who sustained injuries from the gunshot is alive and receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital in Azare town
The Attack on the former Comptroller General of Prison came barely 24 hours after unknown gunmen attacked and killed nine people in Zango area , a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, Police Public Relations Officer ASP Hassan Mohammed Auyo said he had travelled out of the state on casual leave. And therefore could not volunteer any comment on the incident.
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