Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying an advance safety workforce for President Buhari in his house state of Katsina.
Suspected bandits attacked the safety convoy of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina state, an official has stated.
Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu issued a press release confirming the assault on Tuesday, saying two individuals within the convoy sustained minor accidents.
Shehu stated the convoy, which was carrying a workforce of safety guards in addition to protocol and media officers, was on its approach to Daura, Buhari’s hometown, to organize for his go to when the assault came about.
“The attackers opened hearth on the convoy from ambush positions however have been repelled by the navy, police and DSS personnel accompanying the convoy,” stated the assertion. “Two individuals within the convoy are receiving remedy for the minor accidents they suffered. All the opposite personnel, employees and automobiles made it safely to Daura.”
“The Presidency has described as unhappy and unwelcome the capturing incident close to Dutsinma, Katsina State,” the assertion added.
Buhari is scheduled to go to Katsina throughout the Sallah celebration, an Islamic competition, which will likely be held over the weekend.
Attackers additionally killed a police space commander and one other officer in a unique a part of Katsina state, in keeping with a press release issued on Tuesday by the state police spokesman, Gambo Isah.
“At about 1130 hours, a misery name was obtained that terrorists numbering over 300 on bikes, capturing sporadically with AK-47 rifles and general-purpose machine weapons, ambushed ACP Aminu Umar, Space Commander, Dutsinma and workforce whereas [they were] on a clearance operation in opposition to recalcitrant bandits/terrorists within the Zakka forest, Safana LGA of Katsina state,” he stated.
“The world commander and one different gallant officer misplaced their lives throughout a cross-exchange of gunfire,” the official stated.
For greater than a decade, gangs of bandits have run riot in huge swaths of northern Nigeria. Lately, the violence brought on by the teams has become a full-fledged disaster within the African nation as they've been concerned within the abduction, maiming, sexual violence, and killings of residents throughout northern elements of the nation.
Knowledge from the Armed Battle Location & Occasion Knowledge Challenge reveals that bandits have been chargeable for greater than 2,600 civilian deaths in 2021 – many greater than these attributed to insurgent teams Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province in the identical 12 months – and virtually 3 times the variety of victims in 2020.
The legal gangs have lately stepped up their assaults regardless of navy operations in opposition to their hideouts which are scattered within the huge forests, straddling Zamfara, Katsina, Kaduna, and Niger states.
The federal government in Nigeria has been underneath intense stress to finish bandit violence earlier than Buhari leaves workplace subsequent 12 months on the finish of his two phrases in energy.
In January 2022, the federal government proscribed bandits as “terrorists.”
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