More than eight people have been killed and several others missing after an attack Wednesday afternoon on a village of Fulani herders at Zakoli near Yendi in the Northern Region.
An elderly resident who was spared because she was a woman said the gunmen surrounded the village at about 1 pm.
She said she was spared because she was a woman.
According to her, the gunmen separated women and children on one side and killed only the men.
She indicated that most of them were shot at close range leaving others with machete wounds.
Dozens of livestock were killed and looted with motorcycles and other properties.
The attackers who were not satisfied with the killings and looting went ahead to burn down the entire settlement.
“When they came, they separated the men here, women and children here, and they killed all the men. They killed my husband and his brother and burned our house to ashes”, the elderly woman recounts the horror she witnessed.
The gunmen after the attack fled into the bushes and their identity is yet to be established.
Security sources however suspect angry locals could be behind it, as a reprisal for the killing of a young native teacher earlier in the morning.
The secondary school teacher identified as a tribal Konkomba was said to be on his way to school when some armed men suspected to be robbers attacked and killed him.
The village of the attack is less than 12kms from Yendi. Security personnel who were deployed to the scene arrived after the attackers had long fled from the area.
Accompanied by personnel of the Ambulance Service, the security personnel conveyed the bodies of the victims to be transported to the Tamale Teaching Hospital morgue.
“They have emptied the village. There is no man in this village again. The soldiers are also leaving us, so we will wait for our turn to be killed”, the woman lamented as the security forces leave the village with the bodies.
