Bandits have reportedly killed nine traders along Jibia/Batsari Road in Katsina State.
Residents reported that the traders were returning to their community from a local market in Jibia when they ran into the gunmen around 6pm of Sunday, February 11, 2024.
It was learnt that the traders were travelling in two vehicles which the gunmen also burnt.
A resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “The traders left the market early enough after their trading on Sunday only for them to run into the gunmen between 5pm and 6pm along Jibia/ Batsari Road.”
Residents said the gunmen shot into the two vehicles conveying the traders, killing one of the drivers and the traders on the spot.
The gunmen also reportedly burnt down the two vehicles the traders were travelling in.
Residents further disclosed that sympathisers later deposited the corpses of the victims at the Jibia General Hospital, where their relatives picked them up Monday morning.
Many of the traders were also wounded in the attack.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Nasiru Muazu, is yet to react to the incident.
The spokesman for the state police command, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, was also said to be at a meeting and he had yet to respond to the SMS sent to him on the incident. (vitalnewsngr.com)
