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Bandits Kill Three Policemen, Six Others In Sokoto

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Bandits Kill Three Policemen, Six Others In Sokoto

Bandits, on Monday, invaded Yar Bulutu weekly market in Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, killing six persons, including three policemen.

According to a source, the bandits attacked people who were in the market around 12:30pm and shot sporadically in all directions.

According to DailyPost, Sa’idu Ibrahim, a member representing Sabon Birni South at the State House of Assembly said the source claimed the bandits came to the market on about 20 motorcycles each carrying three persons and shot sporadically numbering about ninety (90) who carried out the deadly attack.

The source further explained that they first went to where the mobile policemen who were guiding the market were stationed, killed two of them and set one of their vehicles on fire.

The source further revealed that the bandits later killed another policeman who ran into the bush, dragged his body from the bush and threw it into the burning vehicle.

They reportedly also killed three other persons in the market and injured several others with different degrees of wounds.

 

Ayomide Ayano

A writer, communicator, Graduate of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and a Christian.

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