Many feared killed as rival bandit teams conflict in Zamfara 

Scores of bandits have been reportedly killed on account of a heavy combat between two rival teams round Hayin Alhaji to Munhaye forest of the Tsafe Native Authorities Space in Zamfara State.

A neighborhood, Mohammed Sanda instructed The PUNCH on Sunday that the 2 bandit teams engaged in a supremacy combat final Saturday the place scores misplaced their lives.

In response to Sanda, a gaggle of bandits from neighbouring Katsina State invaded some communities in Zamfara State meaning to kidnap the residents.

However the highly effective and infamous bandits’ kingpin Ado Alero who’s an indigene of the world intervened and refused to permit the rival bandits group to kidnap the villagers.

Sanda maintained that the 2 rival teams engaged in a gun battle which resulted within the dying of a number of bandits from each side.

He pressured that the individuals of the world have been at present trouping to the battleground to see the lifeless our bodies of the neutralised bandits.

He additionally added that there have been over 20 bikes deserted by the bandits on the place the place the combat befell

He stated, “Some bandits who got here from Katsina State invaded some communities between Tafkin Kazai and Munhaye village round 5 o’clock pm final Saturday night attempting to abduct the residents of the world”.

“Whereas they have been within the space, one other group of bandits led by Ado Alero got here to the place in a bid to guard the residents”.

“The 2 bandit teams exchanged sizzling phrases and at last started to shoot at one another, whereas the residents ran helter-skelter for his or her expensive lives.

“As we have been working, the bandits’ chief Ado Alero instructed us to not panic and requested us to stay the place we have been.

“The 2 teams fought for a number of hours the place lots of them have been killed and once we returned to the world early morning of in the present day Sunday, we noticed many corpses and several other bikes.

“As I’m talking to you for the time being, many individuals are trouping to this place to see the corpses and the deserted bikes,” Sanda added.

Sanda additionally defined that the communities have been trying into the opportunity of giving a mass burial for the lifeless our bodies of the bandits due to the absence of safety personnel.

“We could dig an enormous grave and bury the lifeless our bodies earlier than they decompose.”

When contacted for remark, the spokesperson for the state police command ASP Yazid Abubakar stated he was not conscious of this growth.

He stated, “I’m not conscious of this, however it’s a crucial growth. God is answering our prayers within the combat towards banditry.”