This was contained in
a statement issued by the police spokesman of the command, a Superintendent of Police
(SP) Gambo Isah, and made available to journalists on Thursday in Katsina.
Isah said: “On
February 27, at about 3am, a distress call was received that bandits in their
large numbers armed with AK47 rifles stormed Gurbi village, Kankara Local
Government Area of Katsina State. They killed four persons and rustled large
number of domestic animals after they received a fierce resistance by the local
vigilante groups.”
Isah explained that
the Katsina State Commissioner of Police, directed Divisional Police Officer
(DPO) Kankara to lead Operation Puff Adder in collaboration with Vigilante
groups to the scene.
According to him, the
team engaged the bandits in a shootout. He noted that the team succeeded in
killing 17 suspected bandits and recovered 80 cows, 108 sheep and a donkey from
the hoodlums earlier carted away from the village and other neighbouring
villages. Isah further revealed that three other persons from the team
sustained various degree of injuries during the encounter.
He added that some of
the bandits managed to escape with gun shots wounds. The police spokesman said
that the operatives were now combing the nearby bushes for arrest of the fleeing
bandits.
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