The Police in Niger State on Monday confirmed the repeal of attack by bandits on Malfa village in Shiroro Local Government Area of the state.
Alhaji Adamu Usman, the state Commissioner of Police, who confirmed the development in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
said that the armed bandits numbering about 100 attempted to invade Malfa from Dogon Gona Forest.
Usman said that they were resisted by personnel of “Operation Puff Adder” policing the area.
“Personnel of `Operation Puff Adder’ were strategically stationed in the area to prevent influx of bandits from neighbouring states,” he said.
Usman explained that the police engaged the bandits in a gun battle, forcing them to move towards Lukube enroute Dogon Gona Forest owing to police superior power and manoeuvres.
According to him, the bandits re-grouped and launched a counter attack on the villagers, stressing that one Abdullahi Masaki was shot in the leg.
He said the victim had been taken to Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Hospital, Minna, where he received medical attention.
The commissioner added that there had been massive reinforcement of other security agencies in the area.
