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Panic As Bandits Kill DPO, Four Others In Niger

Panic As Bandits Kill DPO, Four Others In Niger

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A resident in the area, Musa Idris, who said he narrowly escaped, said the victims were shot dead along Kwakuti village, Minna-Suleja road on Saturday.

 

Bandits have gone wild in Niger State community, killing people in the area.

The bandits on Sunday reportedly killed a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Mukhtar Sabiu, and four others, in Paiko, headquarters of Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State.

A resident in the area, Musa Idris, who said he narrowly escaped, said the victims were shot dead along Kwakuti village, Minna-Suleja road on Saturday.

Confirming the incident in a statement on Sunday, the Niger State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasiu Abiodun, said the DPO and his men were killed in a gun duel.

He said the division received information at about 1100hrs, that armed bandits were sighted around Kwakuti-Dajigbe villages area of Lambata, in an attempt to attack some communities around Gurara LGA.

The divisional police headquarters has mobilised a team of officers and men from Gawu-Babangida Division and Paiko Division; military and vigilante operatives were also drafted to the scene.

He said the police engaged them in a gun duel and repelled the attack with scores of them being neutralized, while others escaped with bullet injuries.

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