Some suspected gunmen launched attack on Gada community in Bungudu local government area of Zamfara state killed scores of people and abducted many including married women.
According to an anonymous source, the gunmen numbering over fifty arrived Gada town around 1:00am and moved straight to the house of the district head.
“They have killed the district head and three other persons before setting his house completely ablaze
“They surrounded the house of the district head killed him and set the house ablaze nobody could help because they were well armed and kept firing gunshots in the air” the source added.
Before killing the district head, the source said, “he bargained with them and pleaded with them not to kill him. They asked him to pay a ransom of (N1,000,000) which he paid cash, but they eventually killed him.
The source added that, they have kidnapped nine person(s) including two married women while they carted away with valuables and food items.
Another source said the “the genesis of the attack is suspected as a result of the refusal of the district head now (late) to give out his daughter to one of the people suspected to be part of the gunmen”.
“Though we are not certain, but we are suspecting that, the man who is in love with the daughter of the late district head might have mobilized the gunmen since he was denied the permission to marry her”.
The source added that “when they left Gada village members of the vigilante from Karakkai confronted the gunmen and engaged them in fire exchange a circumstance that resulted to the escape of three out of the nine people kidnapped by the gunmen
