Bandits have killed 10 security operatives in the Tsafe local government area of Zamfara state.
Leadership learnt that the victims comprised six policemen and four officials of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG).
The killing occurred yesterday in two separate attacks, a local, Aminu Adamun Yelwa, a resident of Tsafe, said.
Yelwa explained that the bandits first killed four officials of the Zamfara state-owned security outfit after they laid an ambush for their victims at the excavation site not far from Tsafe town.
He said the first attack occurred in the morning when workers went to the site for the usual excavation.
He said the second attack was carried out in the evening when a police patrol van was conveying policemen to the Funtua local government area of Katsina state from the Tsafe local government.
Yelwa said the bandits opened fire at the moving vehicle and instantly killed the six policemen on board.
Efforts to get police reactions to the attack proved abortive, as both the Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Maikaba, and the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Yazid Abubakar, did not respond to calls and SMS sent to their mobile phones.
