OVER twenty persons have been reportedly killed by suspected bandits who attacked a market at Ungwan Lalle in Sabon Birni local government area in the Eastern Senatorial District of Sokoto state.
Sources in the village said several other persons were injured and a majority of them are receiving treatment at the General Hospital in Sabon Birni.
Others with life threatening injuries were said to have been taken to the state capital for proper medicare.
Sokoto state police command could not be reached to confirm the attack as the mobile telephone line of the Police Public Relations Officer of the command Assistant Supritendent of Police Abubakar Sanusi was not going through as of the time of filing this report.
However, a former council Chairman of Sabon Birni local government, Abdullahi Tsamaye confirmed the attack to newsmen.
He said the assailant came in large numbers into the market and started shooting sporadically aiming at anybody in sight and, in the process, killing over twenty persons.
They were also said to have burnt down vehicles and destroyed several other property.