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Barely 24 hours After Bandits kidnapped Wedding guest wedding guests travelling along the Sokoto-Gusau Road, the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji raided Tureta forest.
The troops reportedly recovered dozens of rustle Cattle.
Reports say, more than 50 wedding guests were abducted while some of the wedding guests who managed to escape told newsmen that the bandits, as the gunmen are called locally, shot into the first vehicle they were travelling in around 6 p.m.
They said many of those abducted were returning to Gusau (capital of Zamfara State) after attending a wedding in Tambuwal, Sokoto State.
The bandits, who operate mainly in the northwestern states of Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Kebbi and Kaduna, and Niger state in the north-central, have killed thousands while displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
In the past year, the bandits have blocked roads including highways. Important federal highways including Abuja-Kaduna, Gusau-Sokoto-Birnin Kebbi, and Birnin Gwari-Kaduna have become travellers’ nightmares with attacks and abduction or killing of travellers becoming a daily occurrence.
