Armed males suspected to be bandits Saturday night time stormed Gidan Taba village in Dosara Birnin Kaya ward, Maradun native authorities space, killing 12 members of the identical household and kidnapping others.
A resident near the world stated the victims belonged to the household of 1 Mallam Muhammadu Sani, who had gathered his whole household right into a single room in an try and keep away from being kidnapped through the assault.
The supply stated when the bandits found that the household locked themselves contained in the room, they ordered them to open it and once they resisted, the armed males set hearth to the room, burning all 12 members of the family to dying.
Apart from the 12 killed, different residents had been reportedly kidnapped through the raid.
Meanwhile, the 12 deceased members of the family had been Sunday morning buried in keeping with Islamic rites.
The tragic incident is coming amid common assaults and operations by bandits alongside the busy Gusau – Sokoto Road, the place commuters are actually on the mercy of criminals.
Residents have described the killing as barbaric and callous, whereas calling on safety companies and the Zamfara state authorities to accentuate effort to guard lives and property.
As of the time of submitting this report, efforts by our reporter to achieve the state police command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Yazid Abubabakar, proved abortive.
