Police kill bandits’ kingpin, 11 others in Bauchi

A Joint Security Operation led by the Bauchi State Police Command has neutralized 12  suspected bandits in four different hideouts including Mansur, Digare, Gwana and Dajin Madam in Alkaleri forest, Bauchi State.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Ahmed Wakil, who disclosed this to newsmen Monday, said a notorious bandits’ kingpin, Madaki Mansur, who had been terrorizing Alkaleri Local Government Area, and other neighboring states of Taraba, Plateau and Gombe was killed during the operation.

Wakil said, “On the 19th December 2022 at about 0230hrs a Joint Operation of security operatives engaged suspected bandits/kidnappers in four different hideouts; Mansur, Digare, Gwana and Dajin Madam in Alkaleri forest. Following the hot exchange of superior fire-power by the operatives which left 12 of the kidnappers neutralized while others were subdued, dislodged, and scampered in disarray into the nearby bushes with possible gunshot wounds and abandoned their camp.

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“Consequently, weapons and operational motorcycles were recovered during the operation. The Command is intensifying efforts to apprehend the fleeing members of the syndicate.”