The Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed the death of one person in Magazu village of Tsafe Local Government Area of the state following a fresh attack by bandits.
The State Commissioner of Police, Shaba Alkali, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Gusau on Friday.
Alkali said gunmen on motorcycles had invaded the village on Thursday night shooting sporadically in the air and shot one hunter, Idi Isa.
He said the victim was rushed to Tsafe General Hospital where he died in the early hours of Friday.
According to him, the village people were provoked by the development, which they blamed on the herdsmen of the area and, therefore, started attacking all Herdsmen on sight.
Alkali said he had deployed a combined team of armed mobile and regular policemen, led by his deputy, to contain the situation and that normalcy had been restored in the area.
Also speaking to NAN, the Commanding Officer of 223 Light Tank Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Gusau, Colonel Adamu Abdullahi, said the military men who were on patrol around the area had also moved in to restore order.
One of the inhabitants of the village, Musa Rabo, told NAN that the herdsmen invaded the village in search of one person popularly known as Zuma, whom they accused of killing their cow sometime ago.
Rabo said the area had become very tense and this had scared away travelers on the Kaduna/Gusau Road.
NAN.
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