The Katsina State police have attested that five persons who were members of the local vigilante were murdered on Tuesday by bandits in Faskari Local Government Area.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isa made this known in a statement in Katsina.
The PRO attested that the killings took place at Sabon-layi village of the local government area, when members of the vigilante group known as “Yan sakai” entered into a forest and engaged in a fight with the bandits.
According to Isa, the bandits murdered the vigilante members during the fire exchange.
He affirmed that the police search team, headed by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in the area cleared the corpses and found a bandits camp inside the forest that was abandoned by the criminals.
The police spokesman assured that there has been a commencement of manhunt in order to apprehend the bandits.