No fewer than 50 persons were killed on Friday afternoon when bandits attacked three villages in the Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

A former councillor told Premium Times that the gunmen attacked Sabon Garin Damri, Damri and Kalahe villages, around 2:30pm on Friday.

He was quoted as saying, “I was in the main town when the bandits entered Sabon Garin Damri. We suddenly saw people running towards us. Then we started hearing sporadic gunshots. I was miraculously saved.”

According to him, the bandits carried out coordinated attacks on the villages before a joint security team confronted them.

Another resident, Mu’azu Damri, told the newspaper that the number of casualties would have been more if the security agents didn’t confront the bandits.

“I’ll have to personally applaud them (security agents), though I believe they should have come earlier because if they came at the right time, they would have saved a lot of people. But their arrival helped because the number would have been more than that,” he said.

Damri also said the intervention of the military forced the bandits to flee leaving behind the livestock, food items, and other things they had looted from residents.

While Damri said the bandits killed 48, people, multiple sources confirmed that the casualty was 56.

"We counted 56 people,” the councillor said. “In Damri, only three people were killed; a girl and two other men but the remaining were all killed in Sabon Garin Damri and Kalahe. Some of them were not residents of the two communities. They were people who came from nearby villages to celebrate Eid El Fitr with their relatives” he said.

Another resident of Bakura Town, Usman Lauwali, also said 56 people were confirmed dead by residents of the three communities.

He said those who were wounded were receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Bakura.

A police officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the newspaper that they were aware of the situation.

“We’re aware but you can wait for an official statement. I know that a strong reinforcement has been sent to Bakura and Talata Mafara axis this morning. The CP may even visit the communities later,” he said.

Biafranlord:
IF THIS WAS IN THE SE ...THE LEGION OF ZOMBIES AND GENERATION MISCREANTS WILL FLOOD THIS THREAD WITH NONSENSEICAL NEWS AND FOOLISHNESS. THEY ACT AS IF THE LIVES OF DISPLACED NORTHERNERS DONT COUNT....BUT IF ITS SE YOU WILL SEE "MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS" FROM THE "BROWN ROOF KINGDOMS" STRECTHING FROM LAGOS TO KOGI STATES...MTCHEEEW!

Frigga13:
IPOB is not Biafra
IPOB is not igbo.. igbos are members of IPOB

IPOB is an organization that have misled igbos .. igbos now wish to compare themselves to a region killing over 50 human in a day to justify the killing of igbos by their fellow igbos .. becauE they’re being called out ...is shameless and smelly

If IPOB and their bingo wan be Aboki .. let them continue .. even beheading all igbos let them do
If they want to sit at home forever .. led them sit

One thing is sure .. the spirit of Biafra has left that organization and any other organization claiming to be fighting for Biafra

No matter how they twist it .. IPOB will only bring more violence in igbo and will keep using zamfara and kaduna Yardstick for their violence

All this their online bingo are just tearing chest and beating dry hoofs based on emotions and voltrons defending igbos online from Yoruba and Hausa

Ask them what’s next and how they plan to get Biafra .. nothing !

They want to force the government to conduct t referendum ... by sitting at home and killing their economic that way those in katsina and Kano will suffer with their generation

Ana goheri.

Very silly..
Death to IPOB.
IPOB erigo those illiterates online .. and denigrated them to the level of jihadist

Let igbo land burn jare ... a Na emenu.

Biafra is a spirit .. and it lives for ever

Realist12:
Solution to this terrorism is devolution of the police.
State police will definitely work with the locals and counter this attacks before they take place.

This is terrorism i don't know why they calling it bandit, all I see is terrorists sourcing for money hence stealing and kidnapping.

Biafranlord:
IF THIS WAS IN THE SE ...THE LEGION OF ZOMBIES AND GENERATION MISCREANTS WILL FLOOD THIS THREAD WITH NONSENSEICAL NEWS AND FOOLISHNESS. THEY ACT AS IF THE LIVES OF DISPLACED NORTHERNERS DONT COUNT....BUT IF ITS SE YOU WILL SEE "MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS" FROM THE "BROWN ROOF KINGDOMS" STRECTHING FROM LAGOS TO KOGI STATES...MTCHEEEW!

Biafranlord:
IF THIS WAS IN THE SE ...THE LEGION OF ZOMBIES AND GENERATION MISCREANTS WILL FLOOD THIS THREAD WITH NONSENSEICAL NEWS AND FOOLISHNESS. THEY ACT AS IF THE LIVES OF DISPLACED NORTHERNERS DONT COUNT....BUT IF ITS SE YOU WILL SEE "MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS" FROM THE "BROWN ROOF KINGDOMS" STRECTHING FROM LAGOS TO KOGI STATES...MTCHEEEW!

Smoke55:
How can I explain to an outsider that the death of 2 military couple in the south east region generated more wave and concern in Nigeria than the death of 50 people killed in the north??

Will it be an insult when I say that "lives of 2 igbos are equivalent to lives of hundred northerners"?

Less than a 24hrs after the death of the two military couple in the east, presidency issued a press statement condemning it, but more than 3 days after the killing of 50 people in zamfara presidency are yet to comment on it why? Are their lives valueless and useless??


To think that this same governor of zamfara was just commending wike for killing ipob obigbo people In river state few days ago,he commended him for his actions against ipob,why can't he take same actions against bandits killing people in his state..



These lots are disgusting....spit!!

Canvass:


Obed Azikiwe, Zik's father might have sold his soul for a penny, hoping his son rule the federation but not all Igbo's are Azikiwes.
Ojukwu fought a good war and lost with pride. Still not all Igbos are Ojukwu.
Biafra is a spirit that would prevail, if not now, in future. However, my question is why not now?