Hyacinth Chinweuba
The Katsina Police Command have engaged some bandits who were armed with AK 47 rifles and kidnaped some women working inside a farm at Mata-Mulki village of Batsari local government area, of Katsina state.
Operatives of Operation Puff Adder led by Divisional Police Officer, DPO Batsari swiftly moved to the area and gave the hoodlums a hot chase into the forest and engaged them into a gun duel.
Consequently, the bandits abandoned the victims and ran into the forest and the Police team succeeded in rescuing one Zahara’u Abdullahi, aged 16 years and four other young women all of Mata-Mulki village of Batsari LGA of katsina state.
Also, a Police patrol team attached to Faskari Division, responded to a distress call with a report that a group of armed robbers/cattle rustlers have attacked the house of one Ahmed Haruna, m, aged 30 years of Kamfanin Daudawa village, beat him up to a state of coma and robbed him up of unspecified sum of money and other valuables. The team succeeded in arresting one Sa’idu Iliyasu, m, aged 20 years of Kamfanin Dauda Fulani settlement, a notorious member of the armed robbery syndicate.
In the course of investigation, the suspect confessed to have committed the offense along side four others (now at Large).
According to Superintendent of Police, Gambo Isah, spokesman of the Command investigation is on going.