Kebbi State authorities command PRO, said DSP Nafiu Abubakar, the outlaws were engaged by Police and the military forcing the outlaws to leave their targets.

Bandits have gotten into Dankade town under Zuru emirate in Kebbi state killing a minimum of 16 civilians, a one-armed policeman and a soldier.

Lead reported that the latest event which occurred on Friday has actually left neighborhoods in the state in a state of fear.

According to the Kebbi State authorities command PRO, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, the outlaws were engaged by Police and the military requiring the outlaws to leave their targets.

The State police command PRO informed Vanguard that the bandits, through another route, invaded Dankade town where they killed a minimum of 16 civilians, consisting of a soldier and a police officer and yet-to-be ascertain a number of civilians were also abducted by the bandits.

He added that “outlaws also set a number of homes ablaze. “The Kebbi state police commissioner CP Musa Baba has actually since mobilised armed officers and guys to the scene of the incident for an on the spot assessment of damages and restore normalcy at the affected village.

An unconfirmed report from another source who does not wish to be called claimed that a minimum of 50 people were supposedly eliminated in the Dankade attack, this came barely one week after the second batch of FGC Birnin Yauri students gained back freedom.