27 persons including a polceman lost their lives in a deadly attack by gunmen on Dangulbi village in Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State in the early hours of yesterday.
An eye witness who spoke to journalists at the Gusau Specialist Hospital, Alhaji Lawali Dangulb,i said that when the robbers struck, there was pandemonium and the assailants fired in different directions leading to the death of 18 persons.
Lawali, who is also an All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) chairmanship candidate for that Local Government Area in the forth coming council polls also explained that the other dead bodies were discovered in the surrounding villages of Biya, Guru and Sabuwar Kasuwa.
He said he managed to carry eight of the wounded victims from the attack area which is over 100 kilometers from the State capital for treatment in Gusau.
The police commissioner, Mr. Usman Gwary was not available for comment as at the time of filing this report as he was said to have travelled to the crime scene along with the Acting Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Wakkala to assess the situation and attend the mass burial of the dead.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Sanusi Amiru, who confirmed the report however, maintained that he would not say more until his commissioner returned with more details of what took place.
LEADERSHIP, however, gathered that the robbers’ attack might have been a reprisal action of earlier ambush on the criminals’ enclaves in the emirate by security operatives including members of the vigilante. The bandits did not take away anything from their victims.
LEADERSHIP also reported that only last month the Governor made donations of operational vehicles with communications gadgets to security operatives in the state.
It would be recalled that about 30 persons were killed in a similar attack in the crime prone area of Dansadau in the same local government. Similarly, early this year, 15 persons were also killed and cremated in Birnin Magaji Local government of the state. Armed robbery has become the order of the day in the area despite the huge investment in the secu
SOURCE: 12 June 2012.
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