Just In: Bandits Kill Police Area Commander, ACP Aminu Umar, One Other In Katsina

The Dutsinma Area Commander of the Nigeria Police in Katsina State, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Aminu Umar Dayi, has been killed by bandits.

Katsina state Police command confirmed the death of its area commander in a gun duel with bandits who attacked the area this evening.

The late Assistant Commissioner of Police led an attack to one of the bandits hideout in Safana forest where he and one other officer paid the ultimate price after being overpowered by the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel on Tuesday.

The deceased and his team were responding to a distress call put in by communities attacked by the criminal groups numbering over three hundred on motorcycles.

This is contained in a press release issued by the command ppro saying that the groups shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles and General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), ambushed ACP Aminu Umar the Area Commander, Dutsinma and his team, while on clearance operation of recalcitrant bandits in Zakka forest of Safana LGA.

The Commissioner of Police, CP Idrisu Dabban on behalf of the officers and men of the Command expresses his deep sympathy to the family of the deceased and pray to almighty Allah to repose their souls in Jannatul Firdausi.

He reaffirms the Nigeria Police Force’s commitment on the ongoing onslaught against terrorism in the state until it is completely route out.