Kaduna State Government, on Tuesday, said personnel of the Nigerian Army killed nine armed bandits during a firefight late Monday night into the early hours of Tuesday along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.
The state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said troops, acting on intelligence, laid ambush and killed the bandits in a gun duel.
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He said in a statement that a search of the area after the firefight revealed that eight bandits were killed and their bodies recovered.
In a separate feedback, Aruwan said Army and Police officers also foiled another attempt by bandits to cross the Kaduna-Abuja highway with rustled cattle around Greenfield University.
He added that the troops engaged the criminals in a firefight and killed one bandit.
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