Insecurity: Bandits burn resident alive, abduct 27 in Sokoto community in renewed attack – GBAMSBLOG
A resident of Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto State has been reportedly burnt alive while 27 people were abducted by suspected armed bandits in a fresh attack on the local government.
A source from the local government who spoke with our correspondent confirmed that in the latest attack, the victim were abducted from Gatawa, a community in the local government.
It was also gathered that a resident of the town was said to have burnt alive while many policemen are unaccounted for after the attack which occurred on Wednesday.
It will be recalled that bandits had gunned down at least 17 security personnel earlier in the week.
A member of the state House of Assembly representing Sabon Birni East Constituency, Sa’idu Ibrahim, who confirmed the development said the bandits were now targeting security formations in the area.
“They are now looking for where security operatives are stationed because their morale was boosted by their recent attack on a military formation at Dama where many soldiers, policemen and Civil Defence officers were killed.
“So they are now attacking places where they know military, police or other paramilitary camped.
“They shot two persons, including a woman and burnt three others who hid in a grain store; one of them died instantly while the other two are receiving treatment in the hospital,” he said.
According to the lawmaker, they invaded Gatawa because of the presence of Operation Puff Ader’s camp in the area.
“As I am talking to you now, many policemen are still missing. We don’t know whether they were abducted or ran away,” he said.
Meanwhile, all efforts to get the confirmation from the Sokoto State Command of the Nigerian Police was not successful as at the time of writing this report. When contacted by our correspondent, the public relations officer of the command, ASP Sanusi Abubakar, said he was in a meeting and promised to get back.
