Barely one week after the killing of 26 people in a community in Zamfara, gunmen have again hit another village in the state, killing 15 people. The Public Relations Officer of the Zamfara State Police Command, DSP. He said the village is in the Anka Local Government Area of Zamfara in Nigeria’s northwest. According to him, a vigilance group known as Yansakai took on the rustlers, forcing them to flee only for the bandits to reinforce and attack the village, killing 15 people. “On receiving the reports of the attack, the police mobilised to the village and discovered 15 dead bodies majority of whom were Yansakai.

Source: Punch June 02, 2018 12:53 UTC