Gunmen on Thursday evening killed at least 22 people in a raid on a gold mine near Sabuwar Tunga village in Dankurmi district of Maru local government area of Zamfara state.
Residents told Daily Trust that the armed men had earlier invaded a nearby village called Koda with the intent of rustling cattle but met fierce resistance.
The residents were said to have killed the leader of the bandits in shoot out and recovered all their rustled cattle.
The armed men organized themselves again and went to the gold mine near Sabuwar Tunga village.
They laid siege while maximum of the residents had been attending a weekly market buying and selling in Dankurmi community.
“They requested the investors who generally promote gentle beverages to come back for a assembly and when about 8 of them gathered for the purported assembly, they shot them in the head at near variety,” a resident identified as Lawali advised Daily Trust.
“They then proceeded to the mining pits and blocked all break out routes before they began taking pictures dead the artisanal miners at near variety.”
The resident in addition explained that the armed men then marched to Sabuwar Tunga network and abducted extra than a hundred people, together with nursing mothers and children.
A nursing mom who gave beginning not more than weeks ago changed into asked to provide her toddler over.
The infant was lower back to the network however the mom changed into not spared in the abduction.
“The infant is being breastfed by way of some other nursing female. One unhappy and pitiful story approximately this nursing mother is that her husband became amongst those killed at the goldmine.
“It took extra than three hundred nearby vigilantes otherwise called Yan Sakai hours to retrieve the remains of those killed due to the fear that the armed criminals might return,” said the source.
“As I’m speakme to you realize I’m just coming back from the funeral rite of the deceased. A headcount turned into conducted by way of the village head and different citizens and it become discovered out that a hundred and five residents are missing,” Lawali said.
The spokesman of the state police command SP Muhammad Shehu, couldn't be reached at the time of filing this record.
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