Security official and his entire family wiped out by suspected Boko Haram militants in Kano

A member of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, his wife, his 3year old daughter and his crippled brother staying with him were shot dead yesterday.

Police sources said today that four men arrived on the bikes and entered the home of the yet to be identified NSCDC officer in Hotoron Gabas district. They locked the entire family in a room and shot them dead.
“Four of them came on two motorcycles and entered the house. They put all the four people (victims) in a room and shot them dead” before escaping, a neighbour said.

Although no one has claimed responsibility, members of the Boko Haram sect shot dead a secret police officer outside his house in the same Hotoro neighbourhood in June.

It was gathered that the four victims of the attack were killed instantly when the gunmen opened fire on them.

The scene of the attack was cordoned off by armed security operatives, who have intensified their search for the fleeing suspects.

The bodies of the victims were deposited at the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital mortuary.