KATSINA – Dead bodies suspected to be victims of the curses placed on the unknown gunmen who attacked about six villages in Faskari and Sabuwa Local Government Areas of Katsina State have littered local forests surrounding the neighbouring communities. Many abandoned guns and motorcycles were also found beside some of them.
According to eyewitnesses, the corpses were rotten and decomposing. Moreover, they had no visible gunshot wounds, which sparked the rumours that the cause of their death was the curses.
It has been learnt that some local leaders of the affected communities had reportedly warned residents of the areas and others not to touch any dead body or property found in the bush or on the road to avert deadly consequences.
The Chairman of Faskari Local Government, Isyaku Ahmed, confirmed the incident saying “I heard of it (the dead bodies found in the forest). I am sure it is true, yes,”
Ahmed stated that about 10 pregnant women that gave birth in a camp at Faskari Model Primary School were all doing well together with their children as the council took charge of the feeding, medication, water and sanitation of all the displaced persons. Over 1,915 women and children from the affected villages found their refuge there.
It would be recalled that suspected armed hoodlums, who raided Maigora, Unguwar Doka, Sabon Layin Galadima and Kaura Mota in Faskari LGA and Marabar Maigora in Sabuwa council earlier in March this year, left over 100 persons dead and several houses in ruins or devastated.
The men believed to be cattle rustlers and bandits, stormed the villages in about 100 motorcycles with three persons on each bike. They shot sporadically into houses and vehicles before setting many of them ablaze.