President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has expressed sadness over the gruesome murder of travellers by bandits at Isa local government area of the state.
Bandits had on Tuesday ambushed the travellers who were migrating to other parts of the country due to the activities of the bandits and Boko Haram insurgents and opened fire on them.
Initial reports said 42 persons were burnt to death and several others injured by the bandits.
But the State Commissioner of Police, KAMALUDEEN OKUNOLA, confirmed that 23 people were killed in the attack.
The President, who reacted to the incident in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, FEMI ADESINA, vowed that the perpetrators of the attack would not go unpunished.
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