No fewer than 27 people, including a policeman, were, yesterday, feared dead while eight others were injured during a reprisal attack by gunmen who had unleashed mayhem in Dangulbi town, a district of Dansadau Emirate in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Vanguard gathered that the reprisal attack on the area followed the
killing of some gunmen by both the vigilante and Police in Dansadau axis
of the state.
The suspected gunmen reportedly sneaked into the town, posing as
traders on the market day in Dangulbi. But they stayed back after the
market had closed.
Eyewitness account
An eyewitness said the killing started at 1am, yesterday, when the
villages were fast asleep with sporadic gunshots renting the air. The
gunmen allegedly went from house to house killing the occupants of the
buildings in cold blood.
The district head of Dangulbi, Alhaji Shehu Umar was among the people who narrowly escaped death.
The assailants, whose number could not be ascertained, reportedly
came on motorcycles and left about 18 dead bodies after the operation.
Nine others were killed along their route, while they were fleeing the
town.
The gunmen were also said to have abandoned some of the motorcycles with which they came to Dangulbi.
Survivor’s story
A resident, Alhaji Lawali Dangulbi, who spoke to Vanguard at the
Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Gusau, said the gunmen killed 18 persons in
Dangulbi; adding that others were killed along the routes leading to
the towns like Biya, Guru and Sabon Kasuwa villages.
He said eight people, who sustained various degrees of injuries, were
on admission at the FMC. He said the gunmen first attacked the police,
killed one and injured others, which led to the police fleeing the area
before they started killing people in their houses.
Dangulbi said: “They are not armed robbers because nobody has reported that they took away his belongings.”
Zamfara State Deputy Governor, Mallam Ibrahim Wakala, visited
Dangulbi town, about 100 kilometres away from the state capital, where
the bodies of those killed were buried yesterday.
Police react
State Police Command Spokesman, ASP Sanusi Amiru, confirmed the
incident, saying the Police Commissioner, Akila Gwary was on an
assessment visit to the areas where the killings reportedly took place.
Dansadau axis of the state had been witnessing killings by unknown
gunmen, with about 160 people, including five policemen, reportedly
losing their lives in Lingyado, Dansadau, and Tungar Baushe since crises
erupted in the area in 2011.
… as youths kill 5 in Plateau reprisal attack
Five persons were killed, yesterday, in Jos, Plateau State, by irate
youths protesting the suicide bombing attack that killed several people
at Lord’s Chosen Assembly Church in Jos, Sunday morning.
Meanwhile, Jama’atu Alus Sunna Lidaawati Wal Jihad, popularly known
as Boko Haram, has claimed responsibility for the suicide attacks in
Jos, and another attack targeted at EYN Church in Tabra- Biu, Borno
State.
The sect said it did it to prove that Nigerian security agencies cannot stop its attacks and operations in the North.
Spokesperson of Special Task Force, STF, Captain Markus Mdahyelya,
who confirmed the killing of five persons in Jos by angry youths, said
those killed were primarily commercial bike riders. He warned residents
of Jos to stop taking laws into their hands.
He said: “The general public is warned not to take the laws into
their hands as any act of crime would not be tolerated by the security
agencies.”
About six persons have been arrested, yesterday, in connection with the killings, according to the police.
A suicide bomber drove a car rigged with explosives into the Church
in a saloon car with number plate BSA 36 AA. The car exploded before it
could reach its intended target killing the bomber and four others. The
church building was destroyed.
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