{"id":9778,"date":"2018-06-03T16:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9778"},"modified":"2018-06-03T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:32:42","slug":"15-people-killed-in-zamfara-village","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/15-people-killed-in-zamfara-village\/","title":{"rendered":"15 people killed in\u00a0fresh attack in Zamfara village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"heading-post\">\n<h1 class=\"h3 title entry-title\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi jetpack-lazy-image--handled aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/s18694.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Burial-rites-for-the-dead-in-Zamfara.jpg?resize=628%2C353\" alt=\"Image result for Armed banditry: Police confirm 15 people dead in Zamfara village\" width=\"628\" height=\"353\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body-content \">\n<p>The Public Relations officer, Zamfara State police command, Muhammad Shehu, has confirmed that the attack which led to the death of 15 people in the village of Zakuna, was carried out by bandits.<span id=\"more-47382\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shehu said that the bandits invaded Zakuna in the early hours of Friday and rustled cows belonging to villagers.<\/p>\n<p>He added that a vigilante group known as Yansakai took on the rustlers, forcing them to flee but they returned and carried the attack.<\/p>\n<p>This fresh attack is coming just six days after 30 people were killed in another community in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Public Relations officer, Zamfara State police command, Muhammad Shehu, has confirmed that the attack which led to the death of 15 people in the village of Zakuna, was carried out by bandits. Shehu said that the bandits invaded Zakuna in the early hours of Friday and rustled cows belonging to villagers. He added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[318],"class_list":["post-9778","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>15 people killed in\u00a0fresh attack in Zamfara village<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"15 people killed in\u00a0fresh attack in Zamfara village\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/15-people-killed-in-zamfara-village\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"15 people killed in\u00a0fresh attack in Zamfara 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