{"id":155451,"date":"2025-03-17T09:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T08:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:25:10","slug":"bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three","title":{"rendered":"Bandits attack Katsina communities kill six, injure three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bandits launched a deadly attack on the Yar Tsakuwa community in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State on Saturday night, killing five people and injuring three others.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was revealed by security analyst Bakatsine in a post on X on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote; \u201cYesterday night, bandits attacked the Yar Tsakuwa community in Malumfashi LGA, Katsina State. They killed five people and injured three people during the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in another development bandits invaded the Kaware Community in Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>During the attack, they abducted one person, rustled a large number of cattle, and ransacked shops, looting valuables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday night, bandits invaded the Kaware Community in Katsina State. They abducted one person, rustled a large number of cattle, ransacked and looted shops during the invasion,\u201d Bakatsine revealed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Bandits launched a deadly attack on the Yar Tsakuwa community in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State on Saturday night, killing five people and injuring three others. The attack was revealed by security analyst Bakatsine in a post on X on Sunday. He wrote; \u201cYesterday night, bandits attacked the Yar Tsakuwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[591,363,225,5674,254],"class_list":["post-155451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-bandits","tag-insecurity","tag-katsina","tag-malumfashi","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bandits attack Katsina communities kill six, injure three - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bandits launched a deadly attack on the Yar Tsakuwa community in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State on Sa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandits attack Katsina communities kill six, injure three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Bandits launched a deadly attack on the Yar Tsakuwa community in Malumfashi Local Government Area of Katsina State on Sa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-17T08:54:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T15:25:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742192928.239739.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"536\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bandits attack Katsina communities kill six, injure three\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-17T08:54:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T15:25:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\"},\"wordCount\":148,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742192928.239739.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bandits\",\"insecurity\",\"Katsina\",\"Malumfashi\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandits-attack-katsina-communities-kill-six-injure-three\",\"name\":\"Bandits attack Katsina communities kill six, injure three - 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