Mayhem: Bandits kill scores in fresh attacks on Sokoto markets
The attack on Goronyo Onion market, according to a source, happened yesterday, Sunday, October 17.
Sources in the village said the assailants who came in a large number, shot sporadically as they attacked the market leading to the death of several persons.
The source who spoke on condition of anonymity further disclosed that casualty figures were yet unknown but could rise to about 40 people, lamenting that the area was still too unsafe for residents to access.
It would be recalled that last Thursday, suspected members of the outlawed Volunteer Vigilantes group also known as Yan Sakai attacked and killed nine Fulanis at Manmade market in Gwadabawa Local Government Area of the State.
Twenty persons were also killed by suspected bandits at Ungwan Lalle market of Sabon Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
Sokoto state government had earlier ordered the closure of markets in the Eastern Senatorial District of the State as a measure against rising insecurity in the State.
The state governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, while receiving the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Faruk Yahya, who paid him a courtesy visit earlier today confirmed the attack on Goronyo market, disclosing that scores of lives were reportedly lost in the attack.
“We lost lost many people that we are yet to get correct figures of. But tenths of people were killed,” he lamented.
The governor, however, appealed to the Army Chief to deploy more personnel as well as resources to the state to help in curbing the activities of bandits and other criminal elements in the state.
