Troops of the Joint Task Force Northwest Operation Hadarin Daji have killed 10 bandits in the Northwest of Zamfara State.
Report says that the bandits were killed in an ambush conducted by the troops along GADAN ZAIMA -DAN MARKE Bukkuyum Local Government Area, on August 8, 2023.
Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter-Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region that the troops succeeded in killing several armed bandits and rescued about six captives who were kidnapped by the bandits in a forest between Mahuta and Zuru in Kebbi State.
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Troops also succeeded in capturing some of the bandits alive and recovered six AK-47 rifles, a self-propelled gun known as a self-propelled machine gun (GPMG), as well as over one million naira cash, mobile phones and Marijuana.
(EDITOR: TIENABESO BIBIYE)
