By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna –
A joint security operatives including the police and military have foiled a mission by bandits on the Kaduna-Abuja Highway on Monday.
The Kaduna State Police Command’s spokesman, DSP Mohammed Jalige, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said The team killed one of the bandits, recovered one AK47 rifle and nine of their operational motorcycles.
DSP Jalige stated that that the feat was another indication of successful and purposeful synergy between the police and the military in Kaduna State.
“On Monday, June 13 at 2:55 a.m. a team of Police Operation Puff Adder and that of the army’s Operation Thunder Strike on routine patrol along the Kaduna-Abuja highway encountered the bandits at Sabon Sara.
“An exchange of gunfire ensued as a result of which the friendly forces truncated the bandits’ mission forcing them to retreat into the forest as one bandit was neutralised.
“Upon a search of the general area, an AK47 rifle and nine bandits’ operational motorcycles were recovered,’’ he stated.
The police urged residents in the area to report people with suspected gunshot wounds to security agencies as “injured criminal elements will be hibernating around nearby communities to access healthcare services’’.
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