No fewer than 29 persons have been killed in an attack on Gana and Rampas communities in Zamfara State by bandits.
It was gathered that the bandits also rustled about 700 cows and over 200 camels in the affected communities, just as residents of five villages have deserted the communities.
In a BBC Hausa Service report, one Naomi Yakubu, a mother of one of the students who was shot during the recent Yauri attack, said her 18-year-old son, a final year student in the college, fell victim of the bandits’ bullet while he was carrying some primary school pupils to safety.
Naomi noted that her son survived by the will of Almighty Allah because a lot of blood gushed out of his body.
“He is in SS3; he was running while carrying the primary school children. It was in that process that they shot him from the rear. When he fell down, the bandits put him in their vehicle to go with him. But they saw blood gushing out of his body and decided to drop him. They pushed him down.
“He is getting better, he is in the hands of people with the doctors, because of the blood coming out, one teacher quickly carried him and ran away with him,” she said.
A source told the BBC Hausa that three students have died so far, 2 females and a male.
According to the report, one of the female students was asthmatic, as her father had said but the male student died from gunshots.
The report said the bandits sacked about five villages in Anka and Bukuyum communities of Zamfara State.
According to the report, about 29 locals were killed by the bandits who rustled their livestock and stole farm produce, leading to mass exodus from the communities.
Abubakar Mai Inji, a resident of Tungan Rogo who has since moved to another area, said the bandits chased out residents of five villages in Bukuyum and Anka axis.
“The places have been deserted; we’ve been in a state of fear and confusion. We are now in Nasarawa, no food, we are hungry. They killed 29 of our people, drove our cattle away and packed our food,” he said.
Another local who sought anonymity told the BBC that the bandits came on bikes numbering about 300, each carrying three bandits wielding dangerous weapons.
“They were shooting sporadically, they blocked the road, crossed over to Gana and Rampashi where they rustled cattle, about 700 and over 200 camels,” he said.
When contacted, the police spokesman in Zamfara State, Mohammed Shehu, told the BBC that they were yet to get the information but would investigate it.
