A brutal bandit attack has been reported in early morning of Wednesday in Banga village, located in the Kurya Madaro District of Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The attack left several villagers dead and others abducted.
Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert focused on the Lake Chad region, disclosed this in a post on his X handle on Wednesday.
Makama said that intelligence sources informed him that armed bandits stormed the village, opening fire and killing an unspecified number of residents at around 0130hrs.
The security expert stated that alongside the killings, the assailants abducted multiple villagers, whose identities are yet to be confirmed.
“Authorities are in the process of organizing a visit to the village to assess the full scale of the casualties and gather further information on the incident,” Makama added.
