The Zamfara State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Shehu says gunmen have killed four persons and abducted 50 others in Goran Namaye town in Maradun Local Government Area.
He told newsmen in Gusau that the attackers invaded the town around midnight on Sunday, killed four persons and abducted 50 others.
He, said CP Yakubu Elkana, has ordered an immediate search and rescue operation for the victims, adding that the police tactical operatives had been deployed to the area.
An eyewitness, Sulaiman Gora, said the bandits stormed the village early on Monday and remained in the village for about four hours.
Gora said the bandits ransacked houses one after the other and brought out their victims.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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