Police Foil Terrorists’ Attack, Kill 1 In Katsina

The Katsina State Police Command has raided a terrorist hideout at Unguwar Maizuma of Danja local government area of Katsina State and killed one terrorist during the encounter.

The command spokesman, Gambo Osah disclosed this in a press statement made available to LEADERSHIP, adding that based on credible intelligence that terrorists were sighted in a black spot at Mazuma village, Danja LGA of Katsina State, DPO Danja led a team of policemen to the area and engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel.

“The team repelled the terrorists and neutralized one of the terrorists. In the course of scanning the hideout, the following exhibits were recovered: a locally fabricated gun, a military camouflage uniform, machetes and dagger; 100 bottles and a gallon of spirit, some quantity of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, two Boxer motorcycles, three car batteries, one sewing machine, a roll of cable wire, two cooking gas cylinders and a suspected informant to the terrorists who was also arrested.
“It was reasonably suspected that the ring leader of the terror group, one Sule Dawa, escaped with fatal gunshots wound. The command is making efforts to arrest the gang leader and other members of the syndicate”, he said
He added that the commissioner of police, CP Idrisu Dabban Dauda, appreciated the efforts of the personnel in repelling the terrorists and directed them to sustain the tempo until all forms of crime and criminality are dealt with, urging members of the public to continue to cooperate with security agencies in the ongoing campaign against terrorism in the state.