Bandits struck again on Saturday morning in Zaka village, Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State, killing three men from the same mother.
Herald Nigeria learnt that their corpses were brought to the palace of the Emir of Katsina, Abdulmumin Kabir, later in the evening, alongside their aged mother.
Commenting on the incident, the spokesman for the Katsina Emirate Council, Mallam Iro Bindawa, advised them to ask the district head of the village to write to the palace, detailing the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Bindawa said, “The emir sympathised with them and advised that the corpses be taken to the village for burial.”
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The spokesman for the police in the state, SP Gambo Isah, also confirmed the incident, adding that the victims were attacked on their farm close to one of the camps of the bandits.
Isah said, “The victims are of the same mother. Four of them were on the farm when the bandits attacked them but one of them managed to escape.”
He also advised the sympathisers, who came with the corpses in two buses, to return the corpses to the village for burial.