Some suspected armed bandits in their multiple numbers launched a deadly attack on the people of Rijiya community in Gusau local government area of Zamfara state.
According to a source who spoke to BBC Hausa service said, the bandits who came to the town around noon on Sunday via motorcycles continue to fire shot at anyone sighted, and the attack resulted in the killing of six persons.
The source also said, the bandits have abducted women and children, whose number is yet to be ascertained as at the time of filing this report.
“They went house to house to ask for women to follow them, those that were abducted were mostly married women and children, including nursing babies. Nobody can tell you the number of women abducted because up to now, headcount of those women who have not returned is ongoing”.
The source added that, the bandits entered Rijiya town through Chafe axis and as at the time when they came to the town, majority of the people were in their farms.
“When I heard gunshots ringing on the air, I was seated at the western part of the town,, but I quickly took to my legs and hide inside one farm where guinea corn has been planted”.
On the identity of those killed the source added, “I knew almost all of them there is one Rufai, there is Sani Lawali who is a political adviser to the Governor, there is one Murtala whom they shot at the heart and two others that brought intervention but eventually killed by the bandits”.
Regarding the where about of the dead bodies of those killed the source said, “they are in the custody of the community people and would be buried by 10:00am on Monday adding that about five others who have sustained various degrees of injuries have been hospitalized and are receiving medical attention”.
Zamfara police command Spokesperson SP Shehu Muhammad could not be reached for comment as at the time of filing this report.
