Police foil suspected bandit attack in Sokoto, kill one attacker

Police successful Sokoto State person foiled a suspected bandit onslaught connected Daraye colony successful Wamako Local Government Area, sidesplitting 1 suspected attacker and recovering an AK-47 firearm with unrecorded ammunition.

The cognition took spot successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday aft information agencies received a distress telephone that a ample radical of equipped bandits had entered the community.

According to a connection issued connected Sunday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ahmad Rufa’i, the study was received astatine astir 1:35 americium connected July 4.

Officers from the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, the Village Crime Reduction Unit (VCRU) and different tactical teams were instantly deployed to enactment unit astatine the Wamako Divisional Headquarters.

“Upon arrival, the squad aggressively engaged the assailants successful a fierce and prolonged weapon duel. Demonstrating superior tactical proficiency, the operatives successfully overpowered the bandits, forcing them to wantonness their ngo and retreat successful disarray into the forest, with respective slug wounds,” the connection said.

Police added that a hunt of the surrounding bushes...