Bandits Ambush Security Agents, Kill Seven Mopol Officers In Zamfara

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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Bandits have killed at least seven Mobile Police officers during an ambush on a patrol team of security agents on the Magami – Gusau road in Zamfara State.

A source in the area, Yusuf Aminu, said the officers were ambushed after they left Gusau for Magami on patrol duty.

“There is no telecommunications service in the area so the officers went there to patrol the area but unfortunately, they ran into an ambush by the bandits. They could not send an SOS to their unit for reinforcement due to lack of network. The bandits opened fire on the official vehicle conveying the mobile policemen,” he said.

He added that six of the officers were riddled with bullet while their driver was burnt to death in the vehicle.

According to him, the bandits left the bodies there and went back into the bush.

“It was one of the villagers who saw the burning vehicle and raised an alarm. People from Magami helped convey the corpses on vehicles to the town hospital but they were already dead then” Mr Yusuf added.

The corpses have been deposited at the Ahmed Sani Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital in Gusau.

As at the time of filing this report ,efforts to get through to the police spokesperson in the state through telephone proved abortive.