Suspected Fulani herders have killed at lead five police officers in Papa Ward of Darazo Local Government Area, Bauchi State in an ambush on Saturday.
Spokesman for the Bauchi State Police Command, Ahmed Wakili, told Channels Television on Sunday.
Wakili said two of his colleagues were also injured in the attack.
“It’s confirmed that our officers and men on routine patrol in Papa Ward of Darazo Local Government Area were ambushed by some herders,” he said.
“There were casualties during a dual exchange of gunfire between our personnel and the herders. Some of our officers have paid the supreme price.” Wakili added that the attackers also recorded casualties.
He identified the slain officers as Ahmad Muhammad, Mustapha Muhammad, Inspector Amarhel Yunusa, Inspector Idris Ahmed, Corporal Isah Muazu.
The injured officers, the Command’s spokesman, noted were Inspector Isah Musa and Inspector Yusuf Gambo, both from the State Investigation Department.
According to him, the Commissioner of Police is currently at the scene for an on-the-spot assessment, after which more details, including the number of casualties, will be made available.
Meanwhile, the PPRO also confirmed another attack around midnight on Saturday by suspected bandits in Saya village of Zalau Ward in Toro Local Government Area. The attack resulted in the death of 55-year-old Alhaji Muhammadu Bakoshi, an official of Jama’atul Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS), and the kidnapping of three people.
A relative of the late Bakoshi, Arfashada Ahmed, told Channels Television via telephone that the bandits came on foot in large numbers and went straight to the victim’s house.
“They went directly to the rooms where his wives were. They met him in one of the rooms and shot him twice in the head and the chest,” he said.
