Angry youths in Goronyo local government area of Sokoto State on Wednesday reportedly killed three suspected bandits, including a woman, in a failed attack on a community in Sokoto state on Wednesday.
Report says that the office of the vigilante group in the community was razed down by the youths where the suspected bandits were temporarily kept.
The suspected bandits were said to have stormed Ruga, a Fulani community on the outskirts of Goronyo local government, around midnight to rustle cattle but faced deviant resistance from the nomads, who also arrested three attackers.
An eyewitness account said: “The people there are well prepared. Bullets don’t penetrate them. They foiled the attack, arrested three of the bandits, and handed them over to vigilantes in the morning,” a resident said.
“When the news about the arrest reached our youths, they mobilized and stormed the vigilante office in Goronyo town where the bandits were temporarily kept.
“The youth were irked by the unremorseful utterances of the female bandit who was bragging that she had been arrested and released, and she knew she would be free again.
“This was what triggered their action; they overpowered the vigilantes and set the office on fire.
“One of the suspects died inside the office while the female and the other suspect tried to escape through the window but were caught, killed, and their corpses burnt to ashes,”
