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Bandits Flee Into Military Camp, Engage Soldiers, Scores Dead
Scores of armed bandits fleeing the ongoing military operation in Zamfara and Katsina States last Friday afternoon met their waterloo in the hands of soldiers at Maganda village near Allawa in Shiroro local government area of Niger State.
The bandits who were allegedly escaping through the notorious Alawa thick forest, in their hundreds, ran into the military camp stationed at Alawa, and engaged the soldiers in a serious gun duel for several hours.
According to reports, at the end of the face-off with the fleeing hoodlums by the military, one soldier was allegedly missing while scores of the armed bandits were neutralized, as several others escaped into the forest with bullets wounds.
Those who escaped with serious bullets wounds were still being trailed by the soldiers as the entire forest was being combed in search of the escaped ones.
About six machine guns and several AK-47 riffles and bags of live ammunition were said to have been recovered from the bandits.
According to a source close to Alawa community, who would not want his name to be mentioned in the print during a brief chat with the journalists at the weekend in Minna, most of the bandits killed all resembled foreigners as they have no resemblance of Nigerians.
“In fact, from the dead bodies that littered the ground and seen by us, they are not Nigerians, these are foreigners, all of them are carrying long hair like females.
“They don’t have resemblance of Nigerians and they didn’t know the terrains that was why they ran into the soldiers because they did not know that there were soldiers’ camp there,” the source added.
The very reliable source however revealed that though one soldier was said to have been killed by the bandits, the soldiers recorded a huge success by killing several of them, saying, “as I speak with you now, the bodies of the bandits killed are still littered in the bush.”
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