No less than 18 persons were killed in Matazu Local Government Area of Katsina State, with the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) of the aforementioned Local Government Area, Yusha’u Dissi, abducted by armed bandits.
According to SaharaReporters Dissi was kidnapped alongside a woman whose identity was yet to be known in Batsari Local Government Area.
The bandits also killed three persons including a 12-year-old boy at Dan Alhaji, Kandawa and Tsugunni villages.
At Yar Gamji Village, the bandits on Monday killed 15 farmers.
Residents of the area disclosed that the farmers were working on their farmland when the bandits attacked about 10 am and killed them.