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Bandits reportedly kill two, abduct 3 in Katsina
Bandits reportedly killed two people and abducted three others in Katsina State on Sunday.
Eyewitnesses told journalists the bandits who were operating from a forest in the Jibiya Local Government Area of the state came out of hiding and opened fire on passersby.
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They, however, retreated when a joint team of the Nigerian Army and the police arrived at the scene.
Katsina is one of the states in the North-West that had been affected by the activities of the bandits for the better part of the last three years.
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