JUST-IN: Bandits Abduct 40 Worshippers In Zamfara

Terror returned to Zamfara State connected Monday arsenic equipped bandits abducted much than 40 worshippers during dawn prayers astatine Gidan Turbe colony successful Tsafe Local Government Area of the State.

Eyewitnesses said the assailants, heavy equipped with blase weapons, stormed the mosque, waited until the prayers were concluded, and past whisked distant their victims towards a fashionable upland called Gahori.

“The accusation we got from Turbe colony was that galore residents person fled their homes for safety,” said Muhammad Yusuf Tsafe, a resident. “Some person sent their families to Gusau, the authorities capital. It is simply a unspeakable experience. For implicit 40 radical to beryllium abducted successful a azygous operation, you cognize that should beryllium a root of concern.”

The onslaught has thrown the assemblage into panic, with residents of neighbouring villages deserting their homes successful fearfulness of further raids. Another resident, Yunusa Kafi Karfin Yaro, noted that bandit attacks person intensified successful confederate Tsafe, affecting communities specified arsenic Danjibga, Bilbis, Kwalfada, Wanke, Kucheri, and Machiya.

According to him, “Several people, mostly women and children, person been taken into captivity by the bandits recently.”

Meanwhile, troops of Operation Fansan Yamma (OPFY) person continued violative operations crossed Zamfara, Katsina, and Kebbi States, foiling respective bandit attacks contempt sustaining casualties.

In Katsina State, troops of the 17 Brigade Forward Operating Base (FOB) Mabai ambushed terrorists astatine Gatakawa village, recovering a motorcycle and mobile phone. However, unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) came nether ambush adjacent Danmusa Forest, starring to the decease of 1 serviceman aft sustaining gunshot wounds.

Troops besides survived an ambush successful Faskari, wherever a convoy including the Commanding Officer of the 382 Army Regiment came nether occurrence astatine Ruwan Godiya colony on the Sheme-Kankara road. Two soldiers were wounded but were treated astatine FOB Mabai and aboriginal evacuated to the 17 Brigade Medical Centre.

In Kebbi State, troops of the 8 Division Garrison engaged terrorists astatine Ungushi colony successful Kebbe LGA, forcing them to retreat. One civilian was changeable and evacuated to Kebbe General Hospital. Elsewhere, troops and NSCDC operatives confronted terrorists successful Tunga Dade, Mera colony of Augie LGA, though the attackers managed to flight aft carting distant a motorcycle.

Back successful Zamfara, troops of the 1 Brigade Team 7 came nether ambush astir Kuka portion returning from a patrol astatine Mararaba Kyeware successful Tsafe LGA but fought their mode to safety.

Efforts to scope the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yazid Abubakar, for remark were unsuccessful arsenic his mobile enactment was unreachable at press time.