A suspected terrorist has been killed by police operatives in Katsina communities. Nigeriacrime.com learned that the policemen also arrested two others and recovered 100 rustled cattle.
Confirming the incident, the command’s spokesperson, ASP Sadiq Abubakar said nemesis caught up with the suspects following receipt of a credible intelligence report on their activities and hideout.
Consequently, the DPO Danja led police operatives to a gun duel with the suspected terrorists, who attacked Fulani settlements at Unguwar Rogo and Rafin Gora in Danja LGA, Katsina and successfully repelled them, recovering 100 cattle in the process.
The neutralised body of one of the suspected terrorists was found in the course of scanning the scene. ASP Sadiq gave the identity of the suspected terrorists arrested as Ahmadu Abubakar 30, also known as “Mai Boza’ of Wagini village in Batsari LGA, and Abbas Lawai 40, aka “Abbas Dogo” of Filin Polo quarters, Katsina LGA.
Both suspects confessed to have participated in the attack. They also confessed to being under the camp of one Surajo, a suspected notorious bandit leader. The duo also admitted to have participated previously in the attacks on Galadimawa, Karau-karau, Rijana, Fan Turawa communities, all in Kaduna State and some parts of Niger State.
In a related development, scores of Boko Haram fighters, including their women and children have been killed by the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), in Sambisa Forest near the North East of Bama Local Government Area of Borno State on Wednesday, July 5, 2023.
Nigeriacrime.com gathered that the ISWAP terrorist group coordinated the raid at the hideouts of Boko Haram in Bula Alhaji Garwaye.
This is even as the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) killed over a dozen Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists in another deadly airstrike.
The airstrike occurred at a location near Marte local government headquarters in Borno state, northeast Nigeria
Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in Lake Chad and other multiple Sources said that the Boko Haram fighters and their families were among those who escaped the week-long airstrikes coordinated by the Nigerian military’s Air Component Command of Operation Hadin Kai.
ISWAP group stormed the Hideouts of Boko Haram terrorists in Bula Alhaji Garwaye, Sambisa Forest on motorcycles before they opened fire at everyone spotted within the area.
“They killed all the women and their children. Even babies were not spared. The dead bodies could be more than 50. There are many of them. The dead bodies were scattered all over the place as we speak,” The Source said.
Sources said only a few fighters escaped while their properties, motorcycles, bicycles and rifles were looted by the attackers. They later burned the hamlet of Boko Haram and left the scene.