About 30 people are feared killed in a reprisal attack by
hoodlums on members of a local vigilance group known as “Yan sa kai” in Kwari
community of Shinkafi local government of Zamfara State in the early hours of
Friday.
No fewer than 60 others were also abducted by bandits during
a raid of the area on Wednesday.
Governor Abdul Aziz Yari visited the town yesterday and told
the brains behind the bloodletting that there would be no negotiation with them
and that they would not know peace unless they put an end to their nefarious
activities.
Residents said the hoodlums who had laid an ambush
unexpectedly attacked a convoy of vehicles conveying traders from Shinkafi
market back to Kwari at about 11.45pm.
The police said they found at the scene of the attack 13
corpses of traders and another 16 of members of the civilian JTF in the
surrounding bush.
Moment after the governor arrived the town yesterday, he
received a call on the mobile phone of the Emir of Lanka purportedly from the
bandits in their hilly hideouts seeking a soft landing as they were tired of
killing people.
A furious Yari however swore that the bandits would not know
peace.
Government, he said, would use all available means to
dislodge them and avenge their inhuman treatment of innocent people.
He said the Air Force would soon smoke them out of hiding.
A chief of the town and three of his wives were abducted
although one of the women was later released.
A resident said farmers are finding it increasingly
difficult to go to their farms for fear of being killed.
Several operational vehicles of the police burned by the
hoodlums litter the area.
Many resident have relocated to the state capital, Gusau.
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