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June 28, 2019
Atleast 29 armed bandits have been killed within 24 hours after Nigerian troopsof Operation HADARI DAJI engaged armed bandits around Moriki-Dole MorikiGeneral area in Shinkafi Local Government Area of Zamfara state.
Theoperation spokesman Ayobami Oni-Orisan in a statement said the troops attackedthe known bandits’ camps in the state, “on the expiration of the 24-hourultimatum given to all bandits’ groups to surrender and embrace peace or facethe wrath” of the army.
Oni-Orisan,however, added that two soldiers and one mobile policeman were killed duringthe encounter.
Hesaid the troops are in pursuit of the fleeing bandits, determined to completelyflush them out of Zamfara state.
Oni-Orisansaid, the onslaught against bandits’ camps will continue until banditry iscompletely crushed and rooted out of Zamfara state.
Thestate has over time been plagued by killings, kidnapping and banditry.