Members of the Bauchi State Police Command shot and killed a number of bandits and kidnappers in the Yankari Game Reserve Forest in the state’s Alkaleri Local Government Area, The PUNCH reports.
In a statement on Wednesday, the state police public relations officer, Ahmed Wakil, said that the command had recovered two AK-47 weapons from the robbers.
He said, “During the daring operation, several bandits were neutralised and dislodged from their enclaves, while the remaining sprinted in disarray into the deep forest with possible bullet wounds.
“In the same vein, the troops sustained patrol and clearance operations around the thick forests to arrest the fleeing suspects. Consequently, two AK-47 rifles were recovered during the operation.”
He continued by saying that members of the anti-kidnapping unit base 4 of the command detained two suspects who admitted to having abducted four persons, camped them out in the Yankari Game Reserve Forest, and demanded a N20 million ransom.
Wakil added; “Investigation revealed that the principal suspect, Adamu Muhammad, confessed to having participated in kidnapping activities in Kaltanga Village, where they kidnapped four people and camped them at Yankari Forest for about five days until the sum of N20million was paid as ransom.”
