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A member of the First Aid Group of the Jama’atuIzalatilBid’ahWaIqamatis Sunnah (JIBWIS) in the FCT, Khalid Adamu, has been reportedly killed by a suspected assassin gang, who broke into his house at Zamani village, near the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
The deceased, who until his death was the financial secretary of the aid group in Lugbe community, was killed in the early hours of yesterday, his elder sister, Rabiatu Danjuma, said.
She told our correspondent on the phone that the gang was about 20 in number, adding that five of them broke into his sitting room, where one of her younger sisters was sleeping and moved to his bedroom where they met him with his wife, reports Daily Trust.
“They engaged him in fighting before cutting him around his head and other parts of his body.
“One of them who stood over my younger sister in the sitting room had told her that they were sponsored to kill him,’’ she said.
The late Khalid, who was a cargo clearance agent at the Abuja airport, left no child, parents behind.
The sister, however, said he adopted children from his relatives and took care of them.
The chairman, Tafseer committee of JIBWIS in FCT, Imam Yunusa Musa Almadani, confirmed that the deceased was buried around 12pm yesterday.
Repeated calls put across to the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, on the incident were not answered up till the time of filing the story.
