An eye witness, Malam Ibrahim Muhammed told the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Wednesday that the bandits in their hundreds besieged the area at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday and fired gun shots sporadically in the air to scare the residents away.
“We tried to raise alarm to security agencies who were stationed in different places along Sokoto/Gusau road, but everyone was afraid of being sighted by the assailants who held powerful fire arms,” he said. He also said the bandits moved to the house of a retired Director-General in the state government, Alhaji Sani Abdullahi, and picked him too along with six other persons and disappeared.
When contacted, the state Police Command spokesman, SP Mohammed Shehu confirmed the attack but said, “from the report we received, no one was killed and a total of eight persons mostly women and children were abducted by the attackers.”
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