Gunmen kill Custom officer in Kebbi

By Haruna Aliyu

Birnin Kebbi— A yet to beryllium identified Customs serviceman attached to Fingila checkpoint successful Arewa/ Dandi Local Government Area of Kebbi State, was, yesterday, killed by gunmen.

According to a local, an indigene of Fingila colony simply identified arsenic Malam Abdulrasheed, the gunmen who earlier attacked farms, confiscated nutrient from farmers and chased them away.

“They entered farms, asked farmers to trial the nutrient they brought from their homes, forced them to instrumentality a wound earlier collecting the remaining and ate each of it and told them to spell home, saying nary farming today,” Abdulrasheed said.

He explained that connected reaching the main roadworthy astir 7 of them connected motorcycles heavy armed, met the Customs serviceman and opened fired connected him but missed him astatine first. Then they fired the 2nd shot, which deed him aft helium ran into increasing maize workplace adjacent the mosque.

Meanwhile, 2 officers who were not successful unfastened abstraction during the unprovoked onslaught escaped by crawling successful the maize workplace though they sustained injuries.

The root who could not place the deceased said that helium was told helium is from Maiduguri successful Borno State arsenic helium usually sits adjacent the mosque.

At property time, Customs successful the authorities had not reacted to the attack.

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