Nine traders had been gunned down by bandits on Sunday evening along Jibia/Batsari Road in Katsina State.
The traders were reportedly returning to their community from a local market in Jibia when the gunmen ambushed the traders around 6pm.
The traders were being conveyed in two vehicles which the gunmen also razed.
An anonymous resident said, “The traders left the market early enough after their trading on Sunday only for them to run into the gunmen between 5pm and 6pm along Jibia/Batsari Road.”
Residents said the gunmen shot into the two vehicles conveying the traders, killing one of the drivers and the traders on the spot.
The gunmen also reportedly burnt down the two vehicles the traders were travelling in.
According to the residents, sympathisers later deposited the corpses of the victims at the Jibia General Hospital, where their relatives picked them up on Monday morning.
As at the time of this report, the number of casualties and those injured had not been ascertained.
The numbers of traders wounded in the accident and those abducted could not be ascertained as of Monday afternoon.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Nasiru Muazu, was yet to issue a statement on the incident, just as the state police command spokesperson, ASP Abubakar Aliyu, yet to respond to enquiries sent to him on the incident.
