Several communities in western and central part of Birnin-Gwari ransacked by armed bandits are now refugees in Birnin-Gwari town.
The bandits struck communities and Villages of Awaro, Unguwar Shehu, Rhema and some Communities in Dagara ( adjoining Kamuku Forest) from Sunday to the early hours of Monday ( yesterday) burning villages as well as abducting people and carting away grains from those farming communities.
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Three people were killed at Sabon Gida community, while one person was killed at Rhema mining community as well as abduction of three women and unspecified number of men were also abducted to the bush in the latest incident in Birnin-Gwari.
Women, Children and the aged were seen from late afternoon yesterday up to late night trooping Birnin-Gwari as Internally Displaced Person’s ( IDP’s). The communities of Kungin DanBauchi along Birnin-Gwari- Funtua road are also in Birnin-Gwari town as IDPs after bandits attack in Sunday.
The communities were dislocated from their settlement barely forty-eight hours after armed bandits clashed with a notorious warlord in Damari that led the community escaped to Dogon-Dawa as refugees.
At the moment villages of Kimbi, Katakaki in Kakangi ward in Birnin-Gwari neighboring Kuyanbana Forest in Zamfarsa state were sacked by bandits, while farmers were unable to harvest theirs crops due to incessant armed bandits attacks and abduction.