BREAKING: Scores Killed As Bandits Flee Into Niger State Military Camp

• Some bandits who were trying to escape a military operation, mistakenly found themselves in a military camp, after which they were engaged in a gun battle.

Information reaching EkoHotBlog has it that several bandits, who were trying to escape the ongoing military operation in Zamfara and Katsina states, flee into a camp used by soldiers.

The bandits, according to reports, met their waterloo in the hands of the soldiers at Maganda village near Allawa in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger.

The bandits who were attempting to escape from the military operation through the notorious Allawa Forest in their hundreds, engaged the soldiers at Allawa in a serious gun battle that lasted hours.

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While scores of the bandits lost their lives, a soldiers was missing at the end of the gun battle.

Several other bandits were also reported to have escaped into the forest with bullets injuries.

The escaped bandits with serious bullets wounds are trailed by the soldiers as the entire forest is being combed.

“In fact from the dead bodies that we saw, they look like foreigners, all of them are carrying long hair like women. They don’t have resemblance of Nigerians and they don’t know the terrain that was why they ran into the soldiers. They did not know that there is soldiers camp there,” a source in the village recounted the incident.

Amongst the weapons recovered from the bandits are -six machine guns, a number of AK-47 riffles and bags of ammunition.

It would be recalled that in April 2021, some bandits invaded the military base in Alawa, and killed five soldiers and a mobile policeman.

The entire military camp was razed by the armed bandits who invaded the base about 3:00 am when soldiers had just returned to their base from an area patrol.

After the invasion of the military base, the bandits moved to the community where they killed seven people and abducted a number of villagers.

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