41 killed, scores injured in Katsina bandits’ ambush

No fewer than 41 members of vigilante group and residents had been confirmed killed in an ambush by terrorists and an unspecified quantity had been injured in Kankara Native Authorities Space of Katsina State Thursday night.

Nonetheless, residents of the affected communities put the variety of these killed at 58 and expressed worry that extra corpses could possibly be recovered from the realm as some had been nonetheless lacking.

A resident of Yargoje, a village few kilometres from the scene of the incident, who recognized himself merely as Abdullahi, stated, “About 43 individuals had been recovered from the realm and different lifeless our bodies are but to be recovered as different identified individuals have been lacking.”

Additionally, a resident of Kankara who pleaded anonymity stated about 50 corpses had been initially deposited on the Kankara hospital in two batches of 24 and 26 whereas eight extra had been stated to have been recovered from the battle zone.

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He stated about 30 injured individuals had been additionally receiving medical consideration on the hospital.

Day by day Belief Saturday gathered that some vigilante members alongside some residents had on Thursday night round 5.30pm moved to a location in Unguwar Gamji group, Kankara Native Authorities Space, with a view to recovering some home animals that the terrorists had rustled and stored there.

Sources stated unknown to the vigilante members and people who accompanied them, the terrorists who got here by way of Bakori, had been conscious of their presence and had already laid ambush for them.

The police in Katsina nonetheless put the variety of the casualties at 41 in a press release issued by the Command’s spokesperson, SP Gambo Isah.

“On Wednesday, 1/02/2023 at about 2200hrs, terrorists of their numbers, taking pictures sporadically with AK 47 rifles, attacked the home of 1 Alhaji Muntari, at Unguwar Audu Gare, Kandarawa, Bakori LGA, and rustled fifty (50) cows and thirty (30) sheep.

“Subsequently, on Thursday, 2/02/2023, at about 10:00hrs, Yansakai outlawed a gaggle, from eleven (11) villages from Bakori LGA, regrouped and went after the terrorists with a view to recuperate the rustled home animals. They traced the footpath of the hoodlums to a location at Yargoje forest.

“Sadly, the terrorists deliberate and launched a coordinated ambush on the Yansakai. The hoodlums shot and killed forty-one (41) Yansakai and wounded two (2).  Space commander, Malumfashi, led a group of policemen to the scene and recovered the corpses and injured to Kankara Normal Hospital. A joint safety operation is at present ongoing with a view to bringing the perpetrators to e book. Investigation is ongoing, please,” the assertion learn.

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