People I lived with for over 20 years in Bauchi, killed my family over a cartoon from Denmark

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00:00When they came, they had nowhere to go, they could not hide because they had already

00:06all rounded the house and some people were even holding a jet of petrol because they wanted to

00:11set the house on fire while they were sitting inside. So they keep on trying to enforce themselves

00:18into the house and unfortunately they broke the gate and they came in. When we discovered

00:25entered the compound, we ran into, we were all seated in the city room before we ran into the

00:30dinner room, that's my mom's room, we lie down on the floor praying that probably

00:35God will just see us and nothing will happen to us. But unfortunately when they came in

00:40they started looting, they were carrying tv, whatever they could carry. I saw one even climb up trying to

00:47dismantle the satellite dish that was up, trying to dismantle and we were just watching them, we didn't

00:52say anything. If at all they wanted to steal, let them carry whatever they want to carry and group it.

00:58Alas, the story wasn't that way. So after the story, they carried what they wanted to carry outside.

01:06They could not drive out. There are two cars already inside the compound and they broke the windscreen,

01:12the glassy and all of that. Someone just peeped from the window of the room and saw us lying down.

01:20Ah, we are inside. They are inside. That's how they broke the door. They came inside and

01:26they pushed the door, forced themselves inside. My key sister that was by the side,

01:33that was the first person they saw. The first match of this, I mean the hat on her,

01:40her head split into two. I saw it and I was like, oh she's gone. And she screamed, you know.

01:46So when my mom heard the scream of, ah, that's a dying person. She looked up, she was lying down.

01:53But when she looked up, they marched at her face too and caught her and all of that.

01:58I'm macheting everybody and

02:00it was very unfortunate. So I, they came to my side, they marched my head at the back of my head and

02:13I went blind instantly. I think there's a nerve connected to the ability of the eyes there.

02:18I just went blind and another caught on my neck here. Ah, now my eyes opened again. I was like, here,

02:25this is the end. Mira and I noticed that they've not reached where my younger brothers were. The two

02:31of them are just okay. I just lie on them. I tried to pull a kind of cover, a shield to just cover them

02:37and then I lie on them so that at least they must see the two of them. That's how they caught all of us

02:42and matched my elder brothers by the side of the doorway and they thought we were all dead. We were all in the

02:50full of blood.