Stand-off as vigilante storm Police station to kill suspected bandits

Over 1,000 vigilante members popularly known as Yan sakai have surrounded Dandume Divisional police station in Dandume local government, insisting on retrieving and killing of some suspected bandits whom they apprehended in the afternoon.

Daily Trust gathered that some suspected bandits had stormed Unguwar Madugu to purportedly carry out an attack on the village but were over powered by the vigilante and 22 of them were apprehended.

Few minutes after their arrest, a combined team of police and army arrived the scene and retrieved the bandits and took them to the station.

Read more: Daily Trust May 3 2019

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