Browsing: Isa Local Government Area

According to available information, the travellers, who were going to the South, were burnt to death by bandits.

The commissioner said in a statement that the incident occurred on Monday in Danzanke village of Bargaja ward of Isa Local Government Area of Sokoto State.

Manzo Ezekiel, the agency’s Head of Media and Public Relations, announced this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the incident occurred on Saturday, July 7, when 30 passengers boarded the canoe transporting them to Isa town from Bafarawa settlement.

The Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Cordelia Nwawe, told newsmen that at least eight persons were feared dead during the fracas, including an elderly person that the bandits went to kidnap.