At least 21 people have been killed by gunmen in separate attacks in Talata Mafara and Maru local Government Areas of Zamfara State, police and residents said.
At least 21 people have been killed by gunmen in separate attacks in Talata Mafara and Maru local Government Areas ofThe attacks occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday. Police said 21 people were killed in the attacks, but residents of the affected communities said 25 people died in the attacks.
The source, however, said a day later the armed men returned on hundreds of motorcycles, possibly better armed, and killed many in the communities they initially fled from. Some of the victims were killed at Zaman Gida community cemetery during the interment of their loved ones earlier killed by the armed men. The bandits reappeared at the cemetery and killed more people, the source added.The police spokesperson in Zamfara, Muhammad Shehu, in a statement, confirmed the attacks, he however, refuted some media reports claiming that over one hundred people were killed in the attacks.
The armed bandits attacked with the intention to rustle cows, however, after they were confronted by members of the militia group known as “YAN SAKAI”, they started shooting sporadically, thereby resulting to the death of fifteen people, while seven people sustained a gunshot wound and rushed to the hospital for treatment, the police said.
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