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Some gunmen, suspected to be bandits, have killed nine members of a local vigilante group popularly known as Yan Ba Beli, during an ambush, while a few others were injured in the Local Government Areas of Bauchi state.
PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the incident took place on Sunday when the security men were on patrol.
According to a member of the vigilante group who spoke anonymously, he said that the bandits ambushed and killed nine members of the vigilante team and injured many others.
He added, “When the vigilantes veered into the ambush, the bandits opened fire with superior weapons and overpowered the vigilantes and in the process killed nine of them on the spot and injured others.”
He stated that the corpses of the victims were recovered Monday morning and buried at the scene of the incident according to Islamic rites.
The Caretaker Chairman of Ningi LGA, Ibrahim Mato, who confirmed the incident, described the killings as barbaric and said that the government would continue to do everything possible to protect lives and property.
Efforts to get the reaction of the Bauchi State Police Command were not successful at the time of filing this report.
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