Suspected bandits have carried out a gruesome reprisal attack on Tafoki village in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State, leaving several corpses at the entrance of the community in a chilling act of revenge.
Local sources said that the attackers, believed to be mostly in their 20s, stormed the village on April 9, 2025, and deliberately positioned the bodies at the gateway to the town.
The assault is believed to be retaliation for the killing of three bandits — including a notorious gang leader known as Goje —during a failed attempt to raid the village in February.
This comes as authorities continue to lay claims to significantly decimating the terrorists – yet local communities in the affected Northwestern region continue to suffer losses to lives and property.
“There is hardly a day passes by without banditry attacks around here, causing many deaths, besides destruction and stealing of property,” a resident of Faskari in Katsina State told SaharaReporters.
Since that incident, the community has endured a wave of terror.
Witnesses report that the bandits have been abducting villagers, binding their hands behind their backs, executing them with shots to the head, and returning the bodies to the village entrance as a grim message.
Distraught families are left to recover the remains of their loved ones, many already in an advanced state of decomposition.
The emotional toll has been devastating, as villagers grapple not only with loss but with the terrifying realisation that their stand against earlier attacks has sparked a deadly cycle of retaliation.
