Terrorists on motorcycles raided the Tungar Godai community of Anka area in Zamfara State on Saturday, killed four residents, injured two others, stole cattles and burnt down food silos and houses.
The attackers rode into the community in the middle of the night, fired sporadic shots and lit houses, vehicles and food silos on fire, local sources told 21 CENTURY CHRONICLES over the phone on Sunday.
A youth leader in Anka who asked not to be named said 67 houses and 49 food silos were burnt down by the attackers during the one and half hour attack.
“It surprises me that bandits could attack a community in the middle of a state and operate for over one hour yet no efforts would be made by security agents to repel the attack,’ the youth leader, who spoke from a hospital in Anka town where victims of the attack are being attended to, said. ‘All the food they harvested and the one they bought have been burnt down by the bandits.’
Another resident said the attackers seemed to have surrounded the village, ‘the intention was to instil fear in our minds, cripple our economy. Every domestic animal in the community has been stolen yesterday, about 103 animals all taken by them. A canter van was also burnt down.”
Anka, located in the western Zamfara State, is one of the most vulnerable areas in terms of bandits’ attacks in the state. The local government area has a vast forest circle and shares expansive boundaries with Maru, Bakura and Bukkuyum areas.
The police spokesperson in Zamfara State, DSP Yazid Abubakar didn’t respond to a message sent to him over the attack.
The attack came a day after bandits killed one person and abducted four others in a night attack in Ruwan Rana in the neighbouring Bukkuyum area.
