It was also gathered that the gunmen killed other innocent individuals in the community.

It was especially awful for 75 years of ages Mallam Yahaya Mota Nakuna, who had to watch as the gunmen eliminated his children one after the other.

Yahaya, who spoke to The Nation through an interpreter, stated that they had all left house for the farm on that fateful Tuesday without an inkling of the danger ahead.

He stated it was the harvesting period, so they had actually gone to the farm to harvest their farm produce just for the gunmen to come to them and ask whether they understood where the watchfulness men who had operated in the area were staying, but his household informed the shooters that they did not see anyone.

He said: “We did not understand their precise objective because when they asked us where the vigilantes that ran in the area stayed, we addressed them honestly.

“If we understood what they were on the farm for, we would have required to our heels when they got here.

“At least that was what we had actually been doing to protect these past years.”

Yahaya said that he was on the farm with six of his children and four others who concerned assist them in harvesting, including that he was the only one spared amongst them.

He stated that the shooters tied his hands and made him see as his kids were being eliminated with no grace

Stating the event as he sobbed frantically, he stated: “After asking us where the vigilantes were, they asked all my kids to come out of the farm and marched them into the village.

“They tied their hands to the back. They beheaded among them and shot the staying 9 in the head one after the other. After eliminating them, they freed my hands and asked me to go.”

He said that after the gunmen had actually gone, he searched for a relative in a nearby neighborhood to assist him in burying his killed kids.

“Only the two of us dug the tombs for my kids. We invested over five hours digging the graves to bury them because we were just two.

“That Tuesday started well however ended with me losing all my household. Where would I start from? Once, six kids gone at! How will I survive this?”

Yahaya is presently staying in Zumba community with other homeowners of the neighborhoods affected in the Tuesday attack.

The gunmen attacked Nakuna and Wurukuchi neighborhoods on Tuesday at about 11 am. The majority of individuals remained in the farm and the shooters attacked them as numerous bodies were recuperated in numerous farms.

While residents are saying that more than 37 people were eliminated, the Niger State Commissioner of Police, Monday Bala Kuryas, said that just 13 individuals were eliminated.

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