Gunmen killed at least 30 people and abducted women and children in an overnight assault on a village in northwestern Nigeria’s Zamfara State, authorities and residents said.
The attack occurred on Dutsin Dan Ajiya Village of Anka local government area of the state, where gunmen invaded the village around midnight on Thursday, till the early hours of Friday.
Residents said the gunmen, who reportedly arrived on motorcycles, blocked the village entrance and began shooting sporadically before carrying out the abductions.
“After blocking all the roads, the bandits started to shoot at sight, and the villagers ran helter-skelter. After the attack, we realised that 30 people were killed, some were wounded, while several others are at large and nobody knows their whereabouts,” a resident recounts.
Zamfara is one of the north-western states affected by banditry who most times struggle for resource control.