Four people have been killed and eight others abducted after bandits with sophisticated weapons including AK-47 rifles attacked farmers in Katsina State.
The spokesman of the Katsina Police Command confirmed the incident on Monday.
He said that the incident occurred in the early hours of on Sunday after the hoodlums invaded Nahuta and Dantsuntu Communities in Batsari Local Government Area of the State.
He noted that police are already on top of the situation as five persons have so far been rescued unhurt out of the eight that were earlier kidnapped.
Batsari is one of the frontline local government areas in Katsina State where banditry is on the increase. The development has made life unbearable with the locals finding it difficult to access their farmlands which remain their only source of livelihood.
