Suspected IPOB gunmen in Anambra have reportedly killed a pregnant Adamawa woman, her four children and six others.
All the victims hailed from the northern part of Nigeria.
The pregnant woman and her children were killed at Isulo, Orumba North Local Government Area of the state, the Daily Trust reported on Tuesday.
The killings marked another dimension in the gruesome attacks by gunmen believed to be militants of the outlawed separatist movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
The same gang was believed to have beheaded an Anambra lawamker Okechukwu Okoye and his campaign manager, at the weekend.
The Sarkin Hausawa of Orumba North LGA, Alhaji Sa’id Muhammad, yesterday said northerners in Anambra State have resolved to leave the state because of the constant attacks by members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the armed wing of the IPOB.
In an interview with Daily Trust, Muhammad said the killing of the pregnant woman together with her four children by gunmen was not new to them as many of his people have been killed in such a callous manner.
The woman was from Adamawa State. Before her death, she lived in Orumba South, and on Sunday, she visited her friends with her four children.
It was on her way back home in Orumba South that she was killed. She was being conveyed by a commercial motorcyclist when they were ambushed by the gunmen.
They murdered her and her four children but the motorcyclist was said to have escaped.
Five commercial motorcycle riders were also killed and their bikes burnt at Onocha LGA. The bodies of four of the deceased were deposited in the morgue while the fifth one was said to have been burnt to ashes.
Mohammed said another man, Abdullahi, who was selling roasted meat by the roadside at Nnanka, was also killed at his suya spot.
His body was by the roadside since Sunday evening until in the afternoon on Monday when I called the police DPO and informed him about it and requested him to help us recover the remains.
He told me that he cannot send his men there because of the sit-at-home order. We are now planning to leave for the North as they’re killing us daily.