Police in Katsina State have rescued eighty-four victims of kidnap mostly Islamiyya school children from the hands of bandits in Mahuta village of Dandume Local Government Area of the state.
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This follows a distress call received on Saturday at about 2200hrs, by the DPO Dandume, that some Islamiyya Students of Hizburrahim Islamiyya, Mahuta village, numbering about eighty. were attacked while on their way back from Maulud occasion celebrated at Unguwan Alkasim village.
In a statement released on Sunday by the Police Spokesman, SP Gambo Isah, the students were accosted by bandits who had already kidnapped four (4) persons and rustled twelve (12) cows from Danbaure village in Funtua LGA of the state trying to escape into the forest.
On receipt of the report, he said, the DPO led Operations “Puff Adder,” Sharan Daji and Vigilante group to the area and engaged the bandits into a fierce gun duel.
“Subsequently, the teams succeeded in dislodging the bandits and rescued all the eighty-four (84) kidnapped victims and recovered all the twelve rustled cows. Search parties are still combing the area with a view of arresting the injured bandits and/or recovery of their dead bodies. Investigation is ongoing,” Isah noted.
This is coming two days after the release of 344 students of Government Secondary School in Kankara LGA of the state.
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It was gathered that the rescue team engaged in a fight with the bandits around 3am and chased them away.
Spokesman for Katsina state police command, Gambo Isah, confirmed the incident.
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