Zamfara State Police Command say its tactical operatives have repelled an ongoing attacks on Gobirawa, Rimi, Gora, and Madoti Dankule villages of Maradun and Bakura local government areas of the state.
According to the statement by its Spoke Person SP Shehu Muhammad said, the operatives have neutralizes about 30 hoodlums while others fled back to the forest with possible gunshot wounds.
Shehu added in the statement that at the early hours of Tuesday the command received a distress call about the ongoing simultaneous attacks on Gobirawa, Gora, Rini, and Madoti Dankule villages adding that on receipt of the calls tactical operatives of the command comprising Puff Adder, Special Forces, PMF and CTU led by the commander 78 PMF arrived the scene and engaged the invaders on an exchange of gun shots.
“In the course of chasing the assailants out of the villages, the operatives discovered about 10 corpses of the villagers littered at the different theater of engagements”.
Shehu added, “Mop up operation is ongoing with a view to arresting the perpetrators of the dastardly act”.
“Police operatives of the command are enjoined to defend themselves aggressively in any engagement with bandits and ensure that they dominate the ungovern spaces on the continuous basis”.
The State Commissioner of Police Mr. Abutu Yaro has further reiterated his warning to all the recalcitrant armed bandits to either surrender their arms and embrace peace or face the wrath of the law.
Shehu added that, “further details of the operation will be communicated in due course”.
