Bandits attacked police check point, kill one policeman, injures many

Armed bandits, on Sunday attacked a Police Check-Point at Tazame village, killing a policeman and injuring others.

The check-point is located less than a kilometer to Kwatarkwashi, a town next to Gusau, the state capital.

Multiple sources confirmed that the armed bandits riding over 40 motorbikes stormed the check-point around 4am, Sunday for the attack.

The bandits, one of the sources said burnt all the valuables they found at the check-point before they zoomed off.

“The bandits overpowered the policemen on duty because they exchanged fire with them for some minutes before they override the police and set the place on fire.

“I learnt that the remaining policemen ran for their lives. The bandits outnumbered the police, hence, the police could not confront them in gun battle. We are lucky some of the policemen have escaped from the scene otherwise the story would have been different by now,” Daily Trust reports.

Efforts to reach the Zamfara Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazid Abubakar for comment proved abortive, as he neither pick the calls put him by this reporter, nor did he respond to the text message sent to him.