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Herdsmen and their cattle nonetheless impede visitors in Yenagoa metropolis on Monday (20/2/17), though Bayelsa authorities has allotted 1,200 hectares of land to them for grazing. 01351/20/2/2017/Anthony Okpu/BJO/

No fewer than 10 individuals have been killed in raids by suspected cattle rustlers on 4 villages in Zamfara, in accordance with police.

The armed males have been stated to have stormed the villages in Birnin Magaji space of Zamfara, after one in every of their members was killed.

“10 people were killed by the bandits,” spokesperson for the police, Mohammed Shehu, informed AFP.

“From our reports, the attackers fled to the Rugu forest in neighbouring Katsina state,” he additionally stated.

But residence stated greater than 10 folks have been killed.

“We lost 26 people in the attacks on Dutsin Wake, Oho, Badambaji and Kabingiro (villages),” stated Dantani Bube, who lives in Dutsin Wake.

Seventeen have been killed in Dutsin Wake, seven in Oho and one every in Badambaji and Kabingiro, one other resident, Lawwali Maishanu, informed AFP by phone from the world.

Maishanu additionally stated native militia had earlier killed a suspected bandit at a market.

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