Scores of dead bodies suspected to be victims of unknown gunmen (suspected Fulani herdsmen) who attacked about six villages in Faskari and Sabuwa Local Government Areas of Katsina State littered local forests surrounding the neighbouring communities of the state.
Many abandoned guns and motorcycles were also found beside some of them. Eyewitnesses said the corpses were rotten and decomposing.
The corpses had no visible gunshot wounds, which sparked the rumours that the cause of their death was the curses.
But the Director General of the NAFDAC has also said that Poisonous Chemical weapons were actually used by the attackers in their deadly attacks against the people of that environment. He urged the federal government ti institute investigations into the killings.
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 to the newsmen. “I heard of it (the dead bodies found in the forest). I am sure it is true, yes,” he said.
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.
The police is currently awaiting the report on the exact number of dead suspected hoodlums and cattle rustlers uncovered in Rugu Forest.
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.
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