Kaduna Crisis: 18 people arrested as death toll rises to 12

The Kaduna state commissioner of Police, AustinIwar Tuesday said 18 people have been arrested while twelve people were confirmed dead in the three hour crisis that engulfed Kasuwan Maganitown in Kajuru local government on Monday.

Addressing journalists after a fact finding and assessment visit to the area, the police commissioner vowed that no stone will be left unturned in unraveling the immediate and remote causes of the crisis.

The police commissioner who was accompanied by the General Officer commanding 1 division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, Major General Mohammed Mohammed and the state commandant of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps, Modu Goni expressed shock at the scales of destruction.

He said eleven victims of the crisis were “buried around 12 midnight” while one person who sustained injuries later died in the hospital on Tuesday.When Vanguard visited the area, it was deserted while over1000 shops were torched and several vehicles were also burnt.

Crisis started on Monday whena Christian girl who was allegedly engaged to a Muslim man was about to covert to Islam, a development that angered youths that predominantly Christian settlement.