At least four people have been killed including a former Local Government Chairman, identified as Saminu Sule Morai at Morai Community, a district in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The suspected terrorists were said to have invaded Morai Community, a district in Talata Mafara Local Government Area of Zamfara State at about 2:00PM and operated for two hours which led to the death of five and kidnap of scores of residents, while nine were later rescued. troops stationed at Talata Mafara town, which is about thirty kilometres away from the community, arrived to confront them.
According to an eyewitness account, about 200 terrorists invaded the community on over 50 motorcycles spreading across the town and killed the former chairman, a retired Permanent Secretary in the Zamfara State Civil Service, alongside three other residents of the community and abducted many.
“More than five armed marauders invaded our home, crossing over the fence,” he recounted.
“They knocked on my doors, roaring and shouting at us to either open the doors or they would kill all of us. We are already familiar with that nonsense. We couldn’t get scared and refused to even utter a sound of presence in the house.”
The locals narrated that terrorists also burgled shops and carted away valuables from the community. The residents are calling on the federal government to deploy a military base to the community to protect them against the incessant attacks by the terrorists.
Zamfara State has been one of the most volatile regions in northern Nigeria, with incessant attacks by armed groups, locally referred to as bandits, who carry out killings, mass abductions, and raids on rural communities with little resistance.
