Operatives of the Zamfara State Police Command have repelled bandits who attacked the Divisional Police Station in Zurmi Local Government Area.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazid Abubakar, who disclosed this recently, said police operatives attached to the police station acted on credible intelligence that a group of armed bandits was planning to carry out the attack.
The command said it also arrested a 35-year-old suspected female informant.
Abubakar explained that on July 28, Police Tactical Operatives attached to 34 PMF, deployed to Magarya community in the same Zurmi local government area, acted on an intelligence report that suspected armed men were on their way to attack Muslims during Juma’at prayers at Kwata village in Magarya district.
He noted that in a swift reaction, the police operatives mobilised, confronted the bandits and engaged them in a gun battle which lasted for hours.
As a result of the gun duel, one of the bandits was neutralised while the others escaped to the bushes spilling blood on their paths because of the wounds they sustained.
Abubakar stated that the Police investigation that followed the incident resulted in the arrest of a 35-year-old female suspected to be an informant from Rukudawa village.
He added that the suspect confessed that she had been working with bandit kingpin Dankarami Gwaska as his informant and had given her the task of monitoring activities at the police stations for him.
Two handsets containing bandits’ telephone numbers were recovered from her.
