Police Repel Bandit Terrorists In Katsina, Recover 200 Cows, 150 Sheep, Others – [Photos]

No casualty was recorded as Police claimed it repelled bandit terrorists attack in Katsina State community.

The state command of the Nigeria Police Force in a statement released on Saturday (today), said that its operatives on Friday, February 11, repelled a terrorist attack in Nasarawa-Bugaje village in Jibia local government area of the state, Naija News reports.

The operatives claimed it succeeded in recovering all the rustled animals, comprising two hundred (200) cows and one hundred and fifty (150) sheep the armed terrorists had rustled.

According to the spokesperson of the command, SP Gambo Isah, the command received a distress call that terrorists in their numbers, on motorcycles, were shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles and attacking Nassarawa-Bugaje village, where they rustled a large number of domestic animals.

”Police patrol team, led by O/C Anti kidnapping unit, was dispatched to the scene and engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel. The operational strategy and tactics exhbited by the police team forced the hoodlums to retreat, abandoned their mission, and took to their heels,” Isah noted.

The PPRO disclosed further that two brand new operational motorcycles belonging to the terrorists were recovered during the operation.

Isah added that some stolen provisions were recovered.

Naija News observed that no graphical presentation of the said recovered cows, sheep was made available by the police command.

Isah, however, said further investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Meanwhile, unknown gunmen have killed three personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) and two officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ozala Nkanu West Local Government Area of Enugu State.

It was learned that the gunmen attacked the Ozalla community along Enugu-Port Harcourt Road, as well as the Lomalida axis of Ugwuaji Road.

The gunmen opened fire at a customs checkpoint within Ozalla community, close to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Ituku-Ozalla, at about 1:30p.m.

A customs officer was said to have died instantly, while three other officers sustained serious bullet wounds.

This newspaper gathered that the injured were taken to a nearby hospital for medical attention.

Minutes later, the hoodlums attacked a police checkpoint at Lomalida axis of Ugwuaji Road where some policemen and NSCDC officers were brutally murdered.

Two officers were feared dead from the shooting, while about four others sustained bullet wounds.

The police spokesperson in Enugu State, Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the shootings.