Bandits have also slain residents in Kaduna State’s Zangon Kataf, Chikun, Birnin Gwari, Igabi, and Kauru LGAs in the last week.

The President also extended the nation’s sympathies to the Government of Kaduna State, the people of Zonkwa Chiefdom, and the family of His Highness Nuhu Bature, the Agwam Bajju, in a statement issued by his media adviser, Garba Shehu.

He prayed for the souls of those who had died to rest in peace.

President Buhari stated that the country’s security forces have turned up the heat on terrorists who have become frustrated and are soft-targeting innocent Nigerians, robbing their assets, destroying their houses, and murdering them without mercy.

He has reiterated his directive to the security and intelligence chiefs to do everything they can to destroy the remaining vestiges of the terrorists.