A fighter jet targeting terrorists, on Wednesday, accidentally bombed villagers at Kunkuna in Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Aminu Umar, was gunned down by bandits, on Tuesday, in Safana LGA.
Umar had led his men to respond to a distress call when he was shot dead.
Security convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari was also attacked in Katsina on Tuesday, but not in Safana LGA. Katsina is one of the states being ravaged by banditry in the North-West region.
Although details of the accident at Kunkuna village are still sketchy, many lives were reportedly lost.
The NAF jet, it was learnt, hit the wrong targets in the operation launched against bandits’ camps in the area.
Spokesman of the Nigerian Air Force, Edward Gabkwet, could not be reached as of the time of filing this report.
There have been several instances of accidental bombing involving the Air Force. One of such incidents happened in Rann, a border town in Kala/Balge Local Government Area of Borno State, on 17 January 2017.
A Nigerian Air Force jet mistakenly bombed an Internally Displaced Persons camp. They had believed it was a Boko Haram encampment.
The bombing left at least 115 people dead, including six Red Cross aid workers, and left more than 100 injured.
Four years later, a military jet involved in the counter-insurgency operation in the North East bombed a village in Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State, killing at least 10 villagers.
Yunusari is in the Northern part of Yobe State, sharing international border with Niger Republic.
A few more incidents were recorded after then.