- Suspected bandits have killed no fewer than 22 people in Sokoto village
- The bandits also destroyed some property belonging to the villagers
- Eye witness accounts revealed that some villagers sustained different degrees of injuries
No fewer than 22 people were killed and property
worth millions of naira raze down when suspected
bandits attacked Gangara village in Sabon Birni
local government area of Sokoto state. Daily Trust reports that eyewitness accounts
revealed that some of the villagers sustained
injuries from a gunshot while scores of them were
still unaccounted for. Legit.ng gathered that the injured ones were taken to the nearest hospitals for treatment while those
who lost their lives in the attack had been buried in
accordance with the tenets of Islam. One of the witnesses, Laminu Umar, told the newspaper that this was the first time the village
was attacked after several fruitless attempts in the
past by the bandits.
“They had made several attempts to invade the
village but were foiled by the locals. We are
suspecting that they invited their friends from other
states and that was why they succeeded this time
around.
“They came around 3:30 pm on over 150
motorcycles, each carrying three armed men. They
started shooting sporadically, killing people at
sight, burning their houses and vehicles,” he said. According to him, the miscreants, who operated for
about two hours, also went away with the villagers’
livestock. Another witness, who pleaded anonymity, said the
invaders ran into bushes after seeing military
vehicles approaching the village. “We just buried 22 corpses, and we are still
searching for more in the bushes. There are several
others who are being treated for gunshots in the
hospitals,” Umar said. The spokesman of the Sokoto state police
command, DSP Muhammad Sadiq, confirmed the
attack and promised to give more details of the
attack after coming back from their monitoring of
compliance to the ongoing closure of inter-state
routes by the Sokoto government.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that some people traveling on the Birnin-Gwari - Kaduna highway were reportedly kidnapped by
suspected bandits. It was reported that the daring bandits carried out
the attacks on Saturday evening, March 15, and on
Sunday evening, March 15. During the Saturday incident, the bandits were said
to have kidnapped some students who were on
their way back to Birnin-Gwari from Kaduna after
writing the university matriculation examination
(UTME). A witness said an individual, Ibrahim Idris, who
boarded the same vehicle with the students was
killed by the bandits.
https://www.legit.ng/1317665-bandits-kill-22-burn-houses-sokoto.html

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