Gunmen suspected to be armed bandits in the early hours of Tuesday attacked Tursa village in Rabbah Local Government area of Sokoto State, killing at least one person and abducting at least six persons from the village.
Confirming this ugly development to our correspondent on Tuesday morning in Sokoto, the spokesman for the Sokoto State Police Command, ASP Ahmed Rufai, said the incident happened at midnight on Tuesday.
Rufais said, “The gunmen entered the village and set ablaze a room and burnt down the one person inside.
“They also burnt down two motorcycles in the process and kidnapped six persons while an undisclosed number of cows were also rustled in the process.”
While assuring that the state commissioner of police has ordered the manhunt of the suspected criminals, he further promised to give more updates on the incident later.
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