Emerging report indicates that the Nigerian Military under the leadership of the Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Farouk Yahaya, has wipeout a good number of armed Fulani bandits who tried to escape, at Maganda village, near Allawa, in Shiroro Local Government Area, Niger State.
The bandits, who were said to be escaping through the notorious Allawa Forest, in their hundreds, ran into the Military Camp, stationed at Alawa, and engaged the Soldiers in a serious gun battle for several hours, leading to 1 Soldier missing at the end of the gun battle.
It was gathered that scores of the bandits were neutralised, and several others escaped into the forest with bullets injuries.
About 6 machine guns, a number of AK-47 riffles, and bags of ammunitions, were recovered from the Fulani bandits.
A source at Allawa community said: “In fact from the dead bodies that we saw, they look like foreigners, all of them are carrying long hair like women. They do not have resemblance of Nigerians, and they do not know the terrain, that was why they ran into the Soldiers. They did not know that there is Soldiers Camp there.”
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