 No fewer than five persons have been killed in separate attacks by gunmen in Zanguqataf local government area of Kaduna state. A 10-year-old herder was killed in one incident around the Maduachi forest, while another person was killed in Atyapchidam. In another attack, a farmer was shot dead along the Zanguqataf and Kaora boundary, and yet another, a man was killed in Anguangaya village. The assailants were later repelled by a combined team of military and police personnel.