A few bandits, on Saturday, supposedly attacked a mining site at Janruwa Village, Birnin-Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing 14 excavators and harming numerous others.

Birnin-Gwari, a couple of kilometers from the Kaduna city, is a passage toward the south-western piece of Nigeria and had been under extreme assaults by desperados, for the most part cows rustlers, hijackers and other criminal components.

The Saturday assault came just weeks after 11 officers were killed by brigands in the region in March.

It was accumulated that the desperados, who raged the mining site in their hundreds riding on engine bicycles, opened fire on everybody in locate.

The correct number of individuals executed couldn't be found out. While some said 40 excavators were murdered, a source told our reporter that lone 14 individuals kicked the bucket with around 30 others harmed.

The Commissioner of Police in Kaduna State, Austin Iwar, affirmed the assault yet was noiseless on the quantity of those executed.

He said the police presently couldn't seem to affirm the loss figure yet were over the circumstance.

A source told our reporter that the scoundrels, in the wake of slaughtering the mineworkers, consumed their bodies to the point of being unrecognizable.

"The assault happened in the vicinity of 12pm and 1pm on Saturday. The brigands, in their hundreds on bicycles, raged the mining site at Janruwa and opened fire on anyone in locate.

"More than 40 people were assaulted. No less than 14 are dreaded dead. It was a shocking scene. The brigands, subsequent to shooting and murdering, consumed the dead to the point of being unrecognizable.

"This is coming after a month ago's killing of 11 troopers conveyed to keep peace in Birnin-Gwari.

"We believed that after the visit of the Federal Government's designation, driven by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazzau, the circumstance would be quiet," the source said.

In spite of the fact that the purposes behind the assault were not clear, sources said the crooks were on a requital mission over the slaughtering of their pack individuals by the neighborhood carefulness gathering.

It was accumulated that no less than seven bodies were kept at the Jibril Maigwari General Hospital funeral home while in excess of 13 individuals with discharge wounds were being dealt with at a similar doctor's facility.

The source said while the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari interstates and bordering towns were moderately serene, the Birnin-Gwari-Funtua Road and the eastern piece of the nearby government had kept on being under assaults by highwaymen.