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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Notorious bandits stormed Zurmi town, the headquarters of Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State on Thursday and set ablaze four operational vehicles belonging to security operatives.<\/p>\n

A resident of the area, who gave his name as Muhammad Zurmi, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that the terrorists outnumbered security personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bandits stormed the town around 4:00 pm on Tuesday with sophisticated weapons and attacked the military base and the police divisional headquarters. They set ablaze four operational vehicles of the military and the police,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He disclosed that the bandits abducted an unspecified number of locals during the attack.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cMost residents of Zurmi town have fled to Dauran and Kaura Namoda.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlready, troops have been reinforced to the area and some of them were in the forest to trace the bandits\u2019 enclaves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are living in fear; these terrorists abducted over 10 people during last Tuesday\u2019s attack on Zurmi town, including a nursing mother, her husband and their baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zurmi appealed to the federal and the Zamfara State governments to come to their rescue, pointing out that the bandits threatened to continue attacking them no matter the security operatives\u2019 intervention.<\/p>\n

However, all efforts to get response from the military, under operations Hadarin Daji and the Zamfara State police command spokesman, ASP Yazeed Abubakar proved unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

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