Troops of Operation Forest Sanity killed three bandits and rescued 16 people in operations spanning Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road and a location in the Igabi council area of Kaduna. The commissioner for internal security and home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday. 

He said troops rescued 15 victims after a call along the Udawa-Manini axis of the Birnin Gwari-Kaduna Road.

“Some of the rescued persons who sustained injuries were rushed to hospital for treatment. Similarly, troops of Operation Forest Sanity responded to a distress call from Gonan Doctor village, Igabi LGA, and laid an ambush at a likely crossing point in Maraban Huda village,” Mr Aruwan stated. 

According to him, contact was made with the bandits, and following a firefight, one bandit was killed.

He said a kidnapped victim was rescued, though injured by the bandits, and was rushed to the Jaji Cantonment Hospital for treatment; one motorcycle was recovered.

Mr Aruwan disclosed that in response to credible intelligence of bandits’ movement around an interstate boundary area, troops of Operation Forest Sanity set up ambush positions around Mangoro general area around Chikun-Birnin Gwari LGA, on the boundary with Shiroro council of neighbouring Niger.

“The troops engaged the approaching bandits and neutralised two. The troops also recovered one AK-47 rifle, one pump-action gun, one improvised explosive device, one Baofeng radio, and 10 motorcycles,” he said.

(NAN)