Eyewitness said that the insurgents killed the man whose name was not known as at press time, his wife, four-year-old child as well as his physically-challenged younger brother.
The tragedy occurred at about 12: 40pm at Hotoro Quarters in the state capital.
It was the exact place where an applicant was killed in his father’s car in front of the residence of a member of the House of Representatives, some days ago.
The four gunmen came on two motorcycles to the home of their victims and went straight to their targets, who were all at home, given that it was a weekend.
The gunmen killed the entire family and escaped ahead of the arrival of the Joint Task Force (JTF), whose soldiers arrived at the scene a few minutes after the victims had been killed.
Spokesman of the state police command, Mr. Magaji Majiya, an Assistant Superintendent, confirmed the attack on the family but declined further details.
The residents said that the police and the soldiers cordoned off the whole area in search of the suspects.
A police source, however, said that as at press time, no arrest had been made while adding that investigation had started.
Meanwhile, a similar tragedy befell a young man from Benue State, who was killed at Dakata Quarters in the state capital, some three days ago.
He was shot and killed inside his business centre by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko haram.
The deceased, whose name was given as Mr. Matthew Akume, was shot at close range while some of his valuables, especially his laptop, were taken away by the suspects.
“Four other persons were in the shop with him when they came. They asked two of them to lie down and the remaining two to go out of the shop, before they killed him,” said a witness.
He recalled that the suspect that pulled the trigger had a ‘small gun’, while the his colleagues, who were shooting outside, had a” big gun”.
The late Akume was a renowned member of St Louis Catholic Church , Bompai, Kano.
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