Police kill terrorists, rescue 3 women, recover weapons, motorcycles
The Katsina State Police Command says it repelled terrorists in their numbers in three separate attacks and rescued three women as well as several animals after receiving a distress call of an attack on Garin Zaki village in Batsari LGA of the state.
According to SP Gambo Isah, the police spokesman in the state, the incident occurred on 25 April 2022 when armed terrorists riding on motorcycles stormed the community shooting sporadically before abducting the three women and rustling some domestic animals.
On receiving notification on the attack, the Divisional Police Officer in the area led a combined team of Police and vigilantes to the area, engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel and subsequently rescued three of the kidnapped women and 15 rustled cows belonging to the villagers.On the same day, police operatives in the state also foiled another attack Kadage village in Kurfi LGA where they neutralized one of the terrorists, recovered an AK-47 weapon and recovered all the rustled animals as well.Many of the terrorists were said to have escaped with gunshot wounds.