[BREAKING NEWS] Coronavirus: One Slaughtered as Katsina Protesters Burn Police Station over Jumat Ban

mandate forbidding huge social occasions to forestall the spread of coronavirus.

Seven vehicles and 10 bikes were additionally set on fire during the uproar.

Ninety suspects have additionally been captured regarding the occurrence.

Onlookers said inconvenience began when one Mallam Hassan directed Jumat supplication in one of the mosques in the town.

Hassan was therefore captured and taken to the police Area Commander's office in Malumfashi for addressing. The improvement didn't allegedly go down well with a portion of his supporters.

The devotees were claimed to have on Saturday assaulted police officers on the job at Kusada Police Division and burnt the police headquarters and the DPO's Quarters.

They were likewise claimed to have torched seven vehicles and 10 bikes on the premises of the police headquarters.

The town was not available for a few hours on Saturday in view of the occurrence.

The representative for the police in Katsina, SP Gambo Isah, who affirmed the advancement, said regularity had come back to the town while examination had started on the occurrence.

He stated, "Recalled that Katsina State Government under the leadership of His Excellency, Governor Aminu Bello Masari, issued a restriction orders Nos. SEC.2/T/3 and SEC.2/T/14 dated 25th and 27th March, 2020 respectively, directing the total closure of its borders and suspension of large gatherings for the weekly Friday prayers and Sunday church services while marriage ceremonies are to be conducted in a low key across the state as part of measures taken to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

“However, on Friday, March 27, 2020, some disgruntled youths under the leadership of one Mallam Hassan tested the will of the state and conducted a Friday prayer in one of the Kusada jummat mosques.

“Subsequently, he was arrested for questioning at Area Commander’s office, Malumfashi which did not go down well with some of his followers.

“Consequently, today (Saturday) around 9am, this particular group organised themselves in a tumultuous manner, attacked and overpowered the policemen on duty at Kusada Division, set ablaze the police station and the DPO’s Quarters. They also burnt down seven vehicles and 10 motorcycles in custody of the police station.”

Isah expressed that the Commissioner of Police in the state, Sanusi Buba, requested the organization of police watch groups and an uncommon joint security team on the requirement of open social affairs in the state to the zone.

"Ninety suspected rioters have been arrested while one of the rioters lost his life as a result of the encounter. Investigation is ongoing,” he included.

Then, Isah said the police in collaboration with contrite dairy cattle rustlers have safeguarded an eleven-year-old young lady, Maryam Ado, from suspected desperados who seized her from Kunkunna-Bayan-Dutse, town in the Safana Local Government Area of Katsina State. Ado was saved about 11am on Friday.

Isah said Ado was protected safe after a weapon duel between the salvage group and the presumed scoundrels.

He stated, "On March 27, 2020, around 11am, the command in collaboration with repentant cattle rustlers led by one Sani Muheddinge rescued one Maryam Ado, aged 11, of Kunkunna-Bayan-Dutse village, from the hands of kidnappers after the exchange of gunfire.”

The order representative said six presumed desperados furnished with AK 47 rifles, on Wednesday raged the town during which Ado was captured and stole to Rugu backwoods.

It was anyway discovered that Ado was brought together with her family soon after her salvage on Friday.

Isah said investigation had started on the issue.

Source: PUNCH