Bandits have released the remaining 12 victims kidnapped in Wanzamai village, in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State after collecting additional N500,000 ransom.
Recall that the bandits kidnapped 85 persons in the village, released 74 last week after collecting the sum of N6 million in two instalments.
The bandits killed one of the victims identified as Samaila Garba, who was the oldest person among them.
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An indigene of the area, Abubakar Na-Allah, who spoke to the PUNCH, said the bandits released the 12 remaining victims and killed Garba on Wednesday, 10 May, after collecting another sum of 500,000 from the locals.
“The remaining 12 kidnapped victims came back home last Wednesday night while the oldest person among them called Samaila Garba did not come back,” he explained.
“To our utmost dismay, we found his dead body beside the road slaughtered by the bandits.”
Na-Allah said they buried the victim on Thursday.
“We so far gave the sum of N6.5 million to the bandits before our people were finally released.”
