BEVERLY HILLS, June 14, (THEWILL) – Suspected armed bandits have killed at least 30 people in fresh attacks on Dutsin Wake and Oho villages in Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara State.
This was disclosed by residents who reported that a suspected armed bandit was earlier caught and had his throat slit by vigilantes locally known as Yan Sakai at Nassarawa Gödel local market.
Angered by the killing, the kinsmen of the slain armed bandit approached the leadership of the vigilante in the village demanding for the release of the man they suspected had carried out the killing.
But the vigilante leader told the angry armed bandits that he couldn’t identify who had killed their brother.
The armed bandits later got a hint that those who partook in the killing of their kinsman were from the villages of Dutsen Wake and Oho.
They then raided the two communities shooting everyone at sight in retaliation.
But the spokesman of the state police command DSP Muhammad Shehu gave the figures of the casualties as 10, saying that seven were killed in Dutsen Wake and three corpses were recovered at Oho village.
The police said the armed bandits had retreated to Ruggu forest in the neighbouring Katsina State.
“The state commissioner of police Mr Kenneth Ebrimson had spoken with his Katsina counterpart alerting him of the development,” he added.
