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Police confirm killing of 4 people by bandits in Zamfara village
The Zamfara State Police Command on Friday confirmed that four people were killed in fresh attack by bandits in Katsira village of Gusau Local Government Area of the state.
The spokesman of the command, SP Mohammed Shehu, in a statement on Friday, said four persons were ambushed and killed by the bandits who came to the community to rustle cows.
He said: “On March 12, 2020, around 7.30pm, a large number of armed men on motorcycles stormed the village and rustled cows belonging to the villagers. A group of local militia known as Yansakai who pursued the rustlers was ambushed and four members of the Yansakai including their commander popularly known as Bala Maigora were killed. Others sustained gunshot injuries.”
Shehu further disclosed that the bandits fled the area before a combined team of policemen and men of Operation Hadarin Daji, adding that the combined team of security personnel had been drafted to the area with a view to arresting the perpetrators of the crime.
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An indigene of the area, Mallam Muhammad Katsira, however claimed that contrary to the figure of casualty given by the police, 10 people were killed by the bandits while 12 others sustained injuries and were receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau.
He said: “The bandits who were moving with cows ambushed the villagers near Katsira village, leading to the death of 10 people on the spot.
“Twelve persons who sustained various degrees of gunshot injury have been rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Gusau.”
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