ARREST OF NOTORIOUS KIDNAPPER, RESCUE OF FOURTEEN (14) KIDNAPPED VICTIMS AND RECOVERY OF THIRTY (30) COWS AND SIXTY (60) SHEEP:

On 18/07/2020 at about 01:00hrs, DPO Dutsinma, CSP Muhammad Makama, led “Operation Puff Adder” to Kwantawama village, Dutsinma LGA of Katsina state, based on a report that bandits numbering about forty (40), on motorcycles, armed with AK 47 rifles, attacked the village, kidnapped fourteen (14) women including children and rustled large number of domestic animals.

The team chased after the hoodlums into the fringes of Rugu forest and engaged them in a gun duel.

The team succeeded and dislodged the bandits, rescued all the kidnapped fourteen women, thirty (30) cows, sixty (60) sheep and arrested one of the bandits later identified as Amadu Yusuf, M, aged 30yrs of Tudu village, Dutsinma LGA of Katsina state.

Investigation is ongoing.

KATSINA POLICE COMMAND DIARY

SUSPECTED BOMB EXPLOSION:

18/07/2020 at about 11:30hrs, DPO Malumfashi reported that a loud sound was heard inside the farm of one Alhaji Hussaini Mai Kwai.

On receipt of the information, the Dpo led Operation Puff Adder to the scene where there was a suspected case of Bomb explotion which killed five young children of one person, by name Alhaji Adamu of Yammawa village, Malumfashi LGA of Katsina state.

The explosion also injured six (6) other children who were sitting under the tree inside the farm.

The children were said to be there to cut grasses for animals’ feed.

The injured children have been evacuated to Malumfashi General Hospital for treatment.
Scene has been preserved while detectives from EOD and CID are presently conducting their investigations.

Investigation is ongoing,

SP Gambo Isah
Police Public Relations Officer,
FOR: Commissioner of Police,
Katsina State Command