{"id":9566,"date":"2025-11-20T10:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9566"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T17:40:06","slug":"bloodshed-in-sokoto-bello-turjis-supporters-kill-two-and-kidnap-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/11\/20\/bloodshed-in-sokoto-bello-turjis-supporters-kill-two-and-kidnap-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodshed in Sokoto: Bello Turji\u2019s Supporters Kill Two and Kidnap Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"mvp-post-head\" class=\"left relative\">\n<h1 class=\"mvp-post-title left entry-title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Armed bandits loyal to notorious kingpin, Bello Turji, reportedly attacked the Kurawa community in the Sabon-Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State.<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"mvp-post-main-out left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-main-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-post-content\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-out right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<p><b>T<\/b>he bandits stormed the Sokoto community on Wednesday night, killing two residents and abducting 11 others.<\/p>\n<p>A conflict and crisis journalist covering insecurity in Nigeria\u2019s northwest, Bakatsine, who disclosed the development in a post via \ud835\udd4f on Thursday, said the attackers also injured two people during the raid, which is the latest in a series of violent incidents plaguing communities in Sokoto East Senatorial District.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bakatsine, the district continues to experience near-daily assaults by bandit groups linked to the Bello Turji network.<\/p>\n<p>He added that residents remain trapped in persistent fear as authorities struggle to curb the escalating violence.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote:\u00a0<i>\u201cSAD NEWS: Last night, armed bandits loyal to Bello Turji stormed Kurawa community in Sabon-Birni LGA of Sokoto State, killing two people. They also injured two people and abducted 11 people (1 man and 10 women) during the attack.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cSokoto East Senatorial District continues to face relentless, near-daily attacks from bandit groups operating in the district, including groups linked to the Bello Turji network. Communities remain trapped in a cycle of fear as authorities struggle to contain the violence.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed bandits loyal to notorious kingpin, Bello Turji, reportedly attacked the Kurawa community in the Sabon-Birni Local Government Area of Sokoto State. The bandits stormed the Sokoto community on Wednesday night, killing two residents&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9585,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9566\/revisions\/9585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}