It has been reported that Bandits trying to escape the ongoing military operation in Zamfara and Katsina states met their doom in the hands of soldiers at Maganda village near Allawa in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
According to reports, the bandits, who were said to be escaping through the notorious Allawa Forest in their hundreds, ran into the military camp stationed at Alawa, and engaged the soldiers in a serious gun battle for several hours.
It was however reported that one soldier was missing at the end of the gun battle, and that scores of the bandits were neutralised and several others escaped into the forest with bullets’ injuries.
It was gathered that the bandits who escaped with serious bullets’ wounds are still being trailed by the soldiers as the entire forest is being combed.
Further reports revealed that about six machine guns and a number of AK-47 riffles and bags of ammunitions were recovered from the bandits.
According to reports, a source at Allawa community disclosed:
“In fact from the dead bodies that we saw, they look like foreigners, all of them are carrying long hair like women. They don’t have resemblance of Nigerians and they don’t know the terrain that was why they ran into the soldiers. They did not know that there is soldiers camp there.”
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