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Some bandits have reportedly attacked three local government areas of Igabi, Giwa and Chikun in Kaduna State and killed seven persons.
The bandits were also said to have injured others, as well as rustled 20 cows.
This is coming barely 24 hours after the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, presented the 2020 security situation reports Governor Nasir El-Rufai.
In that report, the commissioner had said bandits killed no fewer than 937 persons, kidnapped 1,972 persons and rustled 7,195 cattle in the state in 2020.
During the event, Nasir El-Rufai had insisted that his administration would not negotiate with bandits.
The bandits stormed Gangi village in the Igabi Local Government Area, shooting indiscriminately and killing four persons.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Mar 12, 2021
The Kaduna state government on Thursday says armed bandits killed seven persons and rustled about 20 cows in the state.
Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruna, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
He said the bandits stormed Gangi village in the Igabi Local Government Area, shooting indiscriminately and killing four persons.
Aruwan gave the names of the four killed as Wada Sulaiman, Amiru Saidu, Yusha’u Mohammadu and Osama Abdulwahab.
He also said two persons, Ibrahim Jibrin and Abdulhamid Suleiman, sustained gunshot wounds.
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Seven people have been killed and several others injured by bandits in fresh attacks in Igabi, Giwa and Chikun local government areas of Kaduna State.
The bandits also rustled cows and destroyed properties in the attacks.
The state’s Commissioner for Internal Security and Homeland Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The statement was on operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government by the security forces.
Mr Aruwan said the first incident took place in Gangi village in Igabi Local Government Area where bandits in what seemed a cattle rustling operation killed four residents.
He gave the names of those killed as Wada Sulaiman, Amiru Saidu, Yusha’u Mohammadu and Osama Abdulwahab.
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