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Bandits Kill 47 In Katsina …Buhari Reacts

The Katsina State Police Command says bandits have killed 47 people in early morning attacks on communities in three local government areas of the state.
The command’s Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen, yesterday, in Katsina.
He said that the bandits carried out the attacks in Dutsinma, Danmusa and Safana local government areas about 12:30am on April 18.
The command spokesman did not give further details but said that police, Army, Air Force, civil defence and DSS personnel had been deployed to restore normalcy in the affected communities.
Earlier, the Katsina State Police Command had claimed that 29 died in the reprisal attacks on Saturday between the local vigilantes popularly called ‘Yan Sakai’ and unrepentant bandits from the forests of Safana and Dan Musa local government areas of Katsina State
The Police Public Relations Officer for the Katsina State Command, Superintendent Gambo Isa told newsmen that some group of Yan Sakai attacked Fulani settlements at Danmusa, which prompted over 300 bandits from the forest to attack Kuyaji village on motorcycles.
He informed they killed over 14 persons at Kuranchi Dutsin-ma LGA and another five or six persons, respectively.
He said ‘’At Makaurachi and Danya village in Safana LGA, they killed 15 and 4 persons respectively. The total number of persons they killed are 29.
‘’The Commissioner of Police has deployed operatives to the affected locations ,including personnel from the police, military and even air craft by the Nigeria Air Force to engage the bandits, right now normalcy has been restored to the area’’.
Investigations in Safana, Dutsin-ma and Danmusa LGAs revealed that the bandits drew the first blood when they rustled cattle from the respective villages on Friday night.
But villagers resisted them by burning Fulani settlements and chasing their remnants in the mainland away back to the forest.
The bandits, in the forest, on learning about what happened to their fellow brothers, gathered about 300 hundred of them and started attacking the Hausa farmers.
The police, however, denied knowledge of any attack on truckloads carrying palliatives to Dutsinma.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari, last night, condemned the latest attacks by bandits in three local government areas of Katsina State that left 47 persons dead.
Reacting to the incident, the President said he was deeply saddened by the latest development, and called on Nigerians not to despair because “this administration is ever determined to defeat and crush these criminal elements taking advantage of the lockdown to attack their victims.”
In a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, President Buhari said he will not tolerate this large-scale killing of innocent people by the bandits, adding that “in line with my commitment to the security of the people, these attacks will be met with decisive force.”
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