Bandits Kill 5 Worshippers In Zamfara Mosque

At slightest 5 worshippers, including the Imam, person been reportedly killed and respective others injured erstwhile equipped bandits attacked a mosque successful Yandoton Daji village, Tsafe section authorities country of Zamfara State.

The bandits were said to person invaded the mosque yesterday portion the worshippers were observing the aboriginal greeting prayers.

Locals said that scores of different worshippers were abducted during the attack.

A resident, who simply identified himself arsenic Inuwa Falke, said the bandits took vantage of the dense rainfall to invade the colony unnoticed.

“Nobody noticed the question of the bandits; we lone heard gunshots. I was lucky, I was not capable to be the congregational supplication due to the fact that of the rainfall; otherwise, I would person been among the victims of the attack,” helium said.

It was said that instantly the assailants stormed the mosque, they opened occurrence indiscriminately, sidesplitting 5 radical connected the spot and leaving galore others with gunshot wounds.

A resident, who spoke nether information of anonymity for information reasons, said the attackers besides abducted an unspecified fig of worshippers and fled into the adjacent forests.

He described the incidental arsenic “barbaric and inhuman,” saying immoderate of the injured victims are presently receiving aesculapian attraction and are responding well.

This battle comes hardly a week aft a akin incidental successful Gidan Turbe village, besides successful Tsafe LGA, wherever astir 40 worshippers were reportedly abducted during dawn prayers.

The attackers surrounded the mosques, seized the victims and marched them into the forests – believed to beryllium towards the Gohori axis of Tsafe, an country notorious for bandit hideouts.

In a abstracted tragedy, implicit 100 amerciable miners person been feared dormant pursuing the illness of a golden pit successful Kadauri village, Maru section authorities country of Zamfara State.

Sources revealed that the pit caved successful connected Thursday, trapping scores of miners. Efforts to rescue those buried successful the debris reportedly led to further casualties arsenic galore of the rescuers suffocated during the operation.

So far, 8 bodies person been recovered, each identified arsenic residents of Mekwanugga village. The deceased person been transported to their assemblage for burial rites.

The Police Public Relations Officer successful the state, DSP Yazid Abubakar, confirmed the pit illness incident.

He, however, said the constabulary bid was yet to get the nonstop fig of miners killed successful the collapse, arsenic rescue operations were inactive underway astatine the site.

“Even this morning, I learnt that galore bodies were received from the pit,” helium said.

The constabulary image-maker, however, did not corroborate the mosque attack, saying helium had not received signals from the Tsafe Divisional Police Officers.