No fewer than 22 people were killed in the wee hours of Tuesday in Tunga Kwana community in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State.

 

DAILY POST gathered that the bandits stormed the village and started shooting sporadically, killing even women and children.

 

 

It was also learnt that most of the villagers who escaped into the forest and later found themselves in Talata Mafara town said that the situation was terrible as the bandits continued to unleash terror attacks on the villagers.

 

“The sight was simply unbelievable considering the way the bandits were unleashing terror attacks on the villagers”, said a villager, Ahmed Mohammed.

 

“Throughout their operations, there was no single security operative in the area to rescue the villagers.”

 

 

According to Mohammed, the bandits have not been happy with the villagers as they had last week reported to the security operatives that the bandits have been rustling away their domestic animals.

 

He explained that even on the day of the dastard operation; the bandits rustled so many cattle without any challenge from any security operative.

 

When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Mohammed Shehu, confirmed the incident, saying that 20 people were killed, not 22 as narrated by the villagers.

 

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Shehu said that armed police men have been deployed to the axis immediately the report was received, appealing to indigenes to remain calm as the security operatives were on top of the issue to fish out the bandits and bring them to book.

 

“The security operatives in the state are not relaxing in their efforts but it is not a day job to wipe out bandits entirely in the whole state.

 

“People should bear with us because were not happy as the insecurity situation has been escalating irrespective of all efforts to block them.

The Former Emir Of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II has vehemently denied the speculated abduction of his cousin insisting that all his family members are safe in their homes.

A National Daily had reported that one of the former Emir’s Cousins was abducted along Abuja/Kaduna roads, however, the Former Emir refuted the Story saying all his family members are doing well.

The Former who spoke through a Telephone interview, said should the purported abduction happen, he will be the first person to release it to the media.

“In any case, I expect the media more specifically those who wrote the story to get in touch with me to verify the story before going to the [ress and thereby endangering my family members”.

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Report has it that the person allegedly abducted, AMINU Musa Abdullahi was the Son of a former Vice Chancellor Bayero University Kano Professor Musa Abdullahi.

The boy was said to have regained freedom from the kidnappers last night.