This was contained in a statement in Gusau on Thursday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muhammad Shehu.
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This was disclosed by the command’s Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Shehu Mohammed, while briefing newsmen in Gusau on Saturday.
According to the Daily Trust, hundreds of women including children were displaced in recent weeks by the armed men following attacks on several villages in the local government.
The accident occurred when the Sharon bus in which the victims were travelling had a head-on collision with an articulated vehicle.
The Chairman of Committee, Abubakar Dauran, gave the order shortly after security forces arrested four suspects for alleged supplying bread and petrol to bandits.
The meeting was held a day after the former governor returned from Saudi Arabia where he performed the 2019 Hajj
The command’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Administration, Bukar Biu, said at a press briefing on Friday in Gusau that one of the attackers was killed in the encounter.
Its spokesman, Muhammad Shehu, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Tsafe that the bandits rode into the village on motorcycles, around 7.30pm