At least 20 people including a twin have been reportedly abducted by terrorists in Dauran Town of Zurmi local Government Area of Zamfara State, North-West, Nigeria.
A resident of the town said, the terrorists stormed the town at about 8.30am on Saturday and started to conduct house to house search where they abducted 20 of the residents and took them to an unknown location.
The local further narrated that most of those abducted were married women including a nursing mother and her four-day old twin.
Sources within the town said, that the terrorists also invaded a mosque in the troubled town to attack worshipers but they narrowly escaped into the bush.
They disclosed that members of Baichin Dauran community were preparing for burial of one of their community members in the morning of Saturday when the terrorists stormed the main cemetery and started to search them one after another and seized all their mobile phones and thereafter left with their victims.
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Residents of the troubled community are appealing to the Federal and Zamfara state Governments to bring to an end the incessant terrorist attacks in the area and other parts of the State.
The attack in Zurmi LGA of the State is coming in less than four hours after the Zamfara State Government through its Commissioner for information, Ibrahim Dosara issued a statement saying, the security situation has improved, in the state, except some isolated cases, in seven LGAs.
Efforts to get the Zamfara State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Superintendent Mohammed Shehu, to confirm the incident were not successful as his telephone lines were not going through.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
