Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed an Imam in Kiratawa community, Sabon-Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State, during an attack on Friday.
The attackers also shot another person along a nearby road.
The incident was reported by Bakatsine (@DanKatsina50), who said the invaders first entered Kiratawa, where they killed the Imam.
After that, the gunmen moved to the Takatsaba route and set an ambush at Dangulbi Bridge.
According to the report, the bandits shot one person dead on the road before security forces arrived at the scene.
The intervention by security operatives forced the attackers to flee the area.
Bakatsine noted that the route had been relatively calm in recent times.
In a related incident, bandits stormed Fadamar Tarah in Sabon-Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Saturday, abducting three people, including a pregnant woman.
According to Bakatsine, there had been no attacks along that axis since the killing of Kallamu, who was described as a lieutenant of the notorious bandit leader Bello Turji.
Bakatsine, a security expert in the North West, asked, “Are we witnessing a continued wave of atrocities by Turji men in Sokoto East?”
He said these attacks raise fears about the security of lives in Sokoto and its environs.
