The Kano State Police Command has arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, and her six children in the Dorayi Chiranchi area of Kano, police said Sunday.
The arrests were confirmed in a statement by the command’s spokesperson, CSP Abdullahi Kiyawa.
Kiyawa said the suspects, Umar Auwalu, 23, Isyaku Yakubu, 40, and Yakubu Abdulaziz, 21, were arrested during a sting operation conducted between 10.00 p.m. on Saturday and 4.00 a.m. on Sunday, 2026.
He said that Auwalu, identified as the leader of the syndicate and a nephew of the deceased housewife, confessed to committing the crime and admitted involvement in other killings and attacks.
According to the spokesperson, items recovered from the suspects include four blood-stained clothes, two mobile phones belonging to the deceased, a cutlass, a club (gora), and some amount of money suspected to have been stolen from the scene.
He added that investigations were ongoing to unravel the full circumstances of the incident and to apprehend any other accomplices.
The Kano State Police Command commended the officers involved in the operation and reassured members of the public of its commitment to bringing perpetrators of crime to justice.