Armed bandits ambush Vigilantes; kill seven [7] people, burn fifty [50] Motorcycles

Armed bandits on Monday ambushed local vigilantes, burned over 50 motorcycles belonging to the vigilante and killed no fewer than seven while others escaped with injuries in Mashegu, Niger State.

Crime Channel gathered that the incident was said to have occurred when the vigilantes had mobilised to launch an attack on the bandit’s hideout after the gunmen killed seven farmers in the area two weeks earlier.

According to a reliable source, a mole among them leaked the plan to the bandits resulting in the gunmen rounding up the local vigilantes where they were making the final plan for the attack on them.

It was also gathered that the armed gunmen opened fire at the vigilante killing seven of them on the spot and injured several others.

The bandits also set fire on over 50 motorcycles belonging to the local security men that were parked at a distance to where the meeting was being held.

Confirming the incident, the Secretary to the State Government Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmed Matane, described it as very saddening adding that the government in collaboration with all the security agencies in the state have begun a massive assault on bandits’ by burning down their hideouts around forests.

In another news, no less than 40 Fulanis and some members of their families were arrested by security operatives last Monday at the Abdulsalami Abubakar motor park in Minna.

According to reports, the Fulani men were suspected bandits who escaped from one of the local government areas of the state where security men have launched an attack on bandits.

Those arrested were said to have stayed the night at the motor park waiting
for dawn but were attacked by security operatives who had caught wind of their plans.

It was said that three trucks loaded with heavily armed soldiers, policemen, men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps carried out the operation after which they took those arrested to an unknown destination.