Bandits kill scores, abduct many villagers in Zamfara community

<p>Gunmen suspected to be terrorists attacked Kwatar community, close to Gidan Zala, Kotorkoshi district of Bungudu Local Government Area in Zamfara State, killing scores and kidnapping many villagers.</p>, <p>DAILY POST reliably gathered that the bandits invaded the community in the wee hours of Friday without security operatives intervention.</p>, <p>According to a police officer from the village, Ismaila, many villagers were killed while some were kidnapped, with many escaping with various degrees of injuries in the deadly operation by the terrorists.</p>, <p>“My father, elder brother and his wife were also killed along with many villagers in the attack”, he added.</p>, <p>Speaking further, he said almost all the villagers who survived the attack have deserted the community for the fear of the bandits’ return.</p>, <p>Another villager, Ya’u Ibrahim, told DAILY POST that the attack was terrible, stressing that many community members sustained serious injuries as they were trying to escape from the deadly attack.</p>, <p>He appealed to the Federal Government to, as a matter of urgency, declare a state of emergency in the State for the residents to have a breath of freedom.</p>, <p>DAILY POST also gathered that on the same day, armed bandits unleashed terror attack at a village near Dangibga village in Tsafe Local Government Area of the State but the number of casualties has not been revealed at at the time of compiling this report.</p>, <p>This medium can authoritatively report that axis to Tsafe Local Government Area of the State has become a bandit area.</p>, <p>All efforts to get the reactions of the police proved unsuccessful as the Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazeed Abdulahi, refused to pick his calls.</p>