Bandits went on a shooting rampage on Saturday having blocked the busy Gusau-Funtua highway and an unspecified number of travelers were abducted.
The highway between Kucheri and Magazu communities in Tsafe Local Government Area of the state were blocked as the bandits shot at moving vehicles.
The spokesperson of the Zamfara State Police Command, ASP Yazid Abubakar, confirmed the incident to Channels Television via a telephone conversation.
He said an unspecified number of travellers were abducted during the attack, adding that the police and other security agencies are currently on joint rescue operations in order to rescue the abducted victims.
“The incident happened this afternoon. The bandits blocked the road and started shooting at the commuters, they kidnapped some of them,” Abubakar said.
“The command in collaboration with other security agencies are working hand in hand to make sure the kidnapped victims are rescued.”
Channels Tv reported that Last month, the gangs raided four villages in Katsina state’s Sabuwa district, killing 25 people, mostly local vigilantes, in apparent reprisals over military offensives on their hideouts, according to a local official.
This is happening even as service chiefs have relocated to the zone on the directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, service chiefs to remain in the North West until normalcy is restored.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar, last month promised Nigerians that the Air Force would sustain the aerial onslaught against terrorists, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals in the North-west.
Nigerians are holding on to all hope, that such bold display and abduction by the bandits will soon be a thing of the past.
