June 18 , 2021 | EASTERN PILOT Report By: Maiharaji Altine | Bandits on Tuesday killed four policemen and a member of the Nigeria Security...
June 18 , 2021 | EASTERN PILOT
Report By: Maiharaji Altine |
Bandits on Tuesday killed four policemen and a member of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Gora-Namaye village, in the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The bandits also injured one policeman and set ablaze a patrol vehicle belonging to the police. The deceased personnel, according to a source, were ambushed by the bandits near Gora-Namaye village, where they opened fire on them.
A spokesperson for the state police command, SP Mohammed Shehu, said the ambush followed the killing of an unspecified number of bandits, who blocked the Bakur-Gusau road last Sunday. Shehu said, “Yes they ambushed our troops, killing four policemen, one civil defence officer and another was critically injured.” He added that the command pursued the bandits in the forest, where they recovered six rifles after a gun battle that lasted several hours.
Bandits killed five soldiers, nine others, 104 abducted – Zamfara resident
| Report By: Maiharaji Altine | 10 June 2021
Five soldiers and nine villagers were killed, while 104 people were abducted in three communities in Zamfara State on Tuesday. Speaking our correspondent on the telephone, an indigene of the area, Malam Rikwamu Musa said the bandits, who were on motorcycles, invaded three villages of Manawa, Malele and Randa in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Musa said, “When the bandits came, they went from house-to-house where they abducted 104 people most of whom were women.”
He added that they also killed nine people and five soldiers. “They killed four people in Manawa village, three people in Malele and two people in Malele “Soldiers engaged the bandits in a battle as a result of which they lost five of their men. Several bandits were also killed by the soldiers,” Musa said. Efforts made by to get comments from either the police or the military was not successful as nobody wanted to talk on the issue.
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