Two Igbo Boys Shot By Unknown Muslim Men In Kano

2 young students,in the ages of 16 and17 years respectively were shot and rendered lifeless by unidentified Muslim gunmen on Thursday December 6, 2012 at the Yankaba location of Kano metropolitan city area near Hadeja road.

Onlooker records suggest that the shooting event took place some moments after 7pm near Yankaba region widely referred as Anambra– line when unidentified gunmen  using on a motorcycle instantaneously shot the 2 young men to death at close quarters– while wailing “Allah is Great” in Arabic. The gunmen escaped promptly.

The father told our correspondent that on Thursday, Daniel visited his friend, Chukwuebuka and while Chukwuebuka was seeing off Daniel just 200 metres away from his home, when Chukwuebuka sister, who was in the bathroom heard two gun shots , rushed out to the scene, only to discover that her brother and friend had been shot to death.

In panic, she alerted her parents. Both fathers rushed out to see the dead body of their two boys  lying in a pool of blood - bullet riddled body.

Within about 10minutes after the shooting, the agents of the Joint Task Force  [JTF] stationed in Kano arrived and carried the bodies of the teenagers to the Bompai Police station where the incident was recorded and thereafter the bodies were taken to the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital mortuary  for autopsy.

Daniel Nwachukwu, from Owerri and Chukwuemeka  Emmanuel Agazie from Umuchu. Both were childhood friends who grew up in Yankaba. Daniel recently secured university admission in Imo state.

We spoke to the fathers of the murdered boys, Solomon Agazie and Nwachukwu. They expressed shock and disbelief over the killing of their innocent sons in cold blood . Mr Nwachukwu who was heavily saddened, cried repeatedly “Who killed my son? What offence has he committed to be shot instantly to death without justice?”