{"id":164415,"date":"2025-05-27T11:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T10:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/man-abducted-in-gusau-as-bandits-kill-scores-in-dutsin-ma"},"modified":"2025-05-27T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:34:50","slug":"man-abducted-in-gusau-as-bandits-kill-scores-in-dutsin-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/man-abducted-in-gusau-as-bandits-kill-scores-in-dutsin-ma","title":{"rendered":"Man abducted in Gusau as bandits kill scores in Dutsin-Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Bandits on Monday night killed several villagers in Fatarawa, Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State.<\/p>\n<p>The bandits also abducted a prominent community leader, Sa\u2019idu Idris Kwamanda, from his residence in Samaru, Gusau, Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>This incident was contained in a post by security analyst, Bakatsine on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, bandits stormed Fatarawa in Dutsin-Ma LGA, Katsina State, killing many people. On the same night, they abducted Sa\u2019idu Idris Kwamanda from his home in Samaru, Gusau town, Zamfara State,\u201d Bakatsine wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are yet to issue an official statement on the incident as of the time of filing this report.<\/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 on Monday night killed several villagers in Fatarawa, Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State. The bandits also abducted a prominent community leader, Sa\u2019idu Idris Kwamanda, from his residence in Samaru, Gusau, Zamfara State. This incident was contained in a post by security analyst, Bakatsine on Tuesday. \u201cLast night, bandits stormed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":164414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[591,225,254,150],"class_list":["post-164415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-bandits","tag-katsina","tag-nigeria","tag-zamfara"],"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>Man abducted in Gusau as bandits kill scores in Dutsin-Ma - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bandits on Monday night killed several villagers in Fatarawa, Dutsin-Ma Local Government Area of Katsina State. 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