Sadly, a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, DSP A. A. Rano, has been shot dead while an army personnel, Col. Masoyi was severely injured in the fire exchange with some bandits.
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The Coalition of Northern Groups threaten protests nationwide if the government fails to rescue students kidnapped during a bandits’ attack on Government Science Secondary School Kankara, Katsina State.
Gunmen, armed with sophisticated weapons, have reportedly attacked six (6) villages in Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina state.
Armed bandits have attacked some communities in Safana, Danmusa and Dutsinma Local Government Areas of Katsina State in early morning of Saturday. The armed bandits have killed 47 persons, injured numerous others and destroyed properties worth millions of Naira.
Two persons have been killed, and 17 others have reportedly been hospitalized after they attended a wedding ceremony in Katsina State.
“Unknown to us that they were also coming to this village, we saw them in large number; some of them trekking, some riding motorcycles.
“This is the fourth time these criminals are attacking Dutsin-Ma in less than a month. First they collected N6 million from Dan Bello, a business man residing near Dutsin-Ma market,” the source said, asking not to be name for security reasons.
According to sources, the man named his first child Muhammadu Buhari shortly after the 2015 general election so that he will be called ‘Muhammadu Buhari’ before and now he is even contemplating changing his name too.
There was an ongoing attack in the nearby village of Zandam which is about two kilometers away, he told me. They could hear the sound of gunshots from their position. There was no need to call the people in Zandam in that situation. The DPO had already been informed but only for the sake of it. His men were to come about five hours later from Jibia which was only ten kilometers away. We lamented and prayed over the phone before hanging up.
