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8 killed, 8 abducted in Zamfara highway attack
Eight travellers were killed and eight others abducted when armed men attacked motorists on the Gusau-Funtua highway in Zamfara state, the police said Thursday.
Nine other passengers sustained gunshot injuries in the attack, which occurred near Unguwar Chida village in Tsafe local government area, Tuesday.
The Zamfara state Police command said security forces later pursued the attackers and killed 17 suspected bandits in an exchange of fire.
The police spokesperson in the state, Yazid Abubakar, stated this in a statement Thursday.
Abubakar said the police received a report at about 4:05 p.m. that a large number of armed men had blocked the federal highway and were shooting at motorists and passengers.
The attackers intercepted two commercial vehicles: an unregistered Sharon vehicle driven by Halilu Namadi of Taloka village in Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto state, and a Sokoto State Transport Authority (SSTA) bus carrying 18 passengers towards Kaduna and Abuja.
Namadi was travelling from Sokoto to Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory when he was shot dead, his vehicle lost control, somersaulted and veered off the road.
Six passengers in the vehicle, four men and two women, were also shot dead.
In the SSTA bus, one male passenger was killed, nine others sustained gunshot injuries and eight were abducted.
The police said officers from the Tsafe division and personnel of the Violence Crime Response Unit were deployed to the scene after receiving the distress report.
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