No fewer than 30 persons are feared killed and 60 women abducted in a reprisal attack by hoodlums on members of a local vigilance group, Yan sa kai, in Kwari community of Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
The attack was carried out between 11:45pm on Thursday and the early hours of Friday.
The gunmen, who were said to have laid an ambush, attacked a convoy of vehicles conveying traders from Shinkafi Market back to Kwari at about 11:45pm.
The police said they found at the scene of the attack 13 corpses of traders and another 16 of members of the civilian JTF in the surrounding bush, while another woman was said to have died afterwards.
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