Daredevil Gunmen Kill 30 In N'West Zamfara Village

 

Heavily armed bandits last night killed over 30 residents in an attack on Cigama village in Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara state.

 

According to Daily Trust, quoting witnesses, the bandits had earlier attacked a neighbouring village of Kokeya and killed at least 2 persons.

 

Rural and herding of communities have been witnessing series of deadly raids by the armed bandits in a what appeared to be a longstanding feud between them and vigilantes.

 

The bandits were provoked after the vigilantes from Cigama village came to offer help for the residents of neighbouring Kokeya when they were being attacked by the bandits in a broad day light.

 

It was gathered that the armed bandits went to Cigama to confront the vigilantes there. "Dozens of them arrived and started firing at residents and setting residential houses ablaze," a witness Isa Shuaibu further explained.

 

Daily Trust quoted a resident of the village who confirmed that after killing a good number of people they also carted away herds of cows and sheep before they fled.

 

Birnin Magaji local government chairman Alhaji Muhammad Bala Gusami put the death toll at over 30. "The bandits first arrived at Kokeya village and shot dead 2 residents there. I informed the DPO of the local government, and he mobilized security personnels and patrolled the village and shortly after the police left they came back and started killing people and corpses are being collected from the outskirt of the village" he added.