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In another attack, bandits kill 10 in Zamfara

Suspected bandits on Friday raided villages in Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing 10 people.

The attackers also stole hundreds of cattle from the villages, residents told Dateline Nigeria.

Six of the victims were killed in Tungar Leru while four others who came from neighbouring Gima and Girkau villages to help chase out the bandits were also killed.

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“They ran down their victims with motorcycles and cut their necks with machetes,” said a resident who attended the funeral rites of most of the men.

“They killed nine of them in that manner. Only one of them was shot,” he added.

The attackers had laid siege to the communities around 5pm on Friday and stationed their men to block paths leading other villages from where they suspected assistance would come, residents said.

Soldiers and policemen later engaged the bandits in a long gunfight, with unconfirmed reports saying two soldiers and a riot police officer had been injured by the attackers.

In a similar attack on Thursday, gunmen invaded Kadawa village in Zurmi Local Government of the state where reports said they killed 56 people, stole cows and looted shops.

The Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle, on Friday urged residents to rise and defend their communities from attacks.

The governor also suspended the Emir of Zurmi, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar Muhammad, and set up a committee to investigate his alleged ties to bandits.

The Zamfara State police command spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu, told Dateline Nigeria that he had not been briefed on the Thursday attack but promised to investigate and get back to our correspondent.

He was yet to do that at the time of filing this report.

Last week, a joint security team comprising policemen and soldiers, repelled an attack by gunmen on a Fulani village outskirts of Anka Local Government and recovered cows that were rustled during the attack, said the police.

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