Police Kill Two Terrorists, Recover Rifles in Katsina

Elsewhere in the northwest, Police have neutralized two terrorists and injured several others at Yasore village in the Batsari Local Government Area of Katsina State.

The incident occurred yesterday after the command received a distress call that terrorists in their numbers, shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles, attacked the village.

Shortly, the Divisional Police Officer DPO, of Batsari led a combined team of Police and vigilante groups to the area, engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel, and repelled them.

In the process of repelling the terrorists, two AK-47 rifles alongside 97 rounds of 7.62mili meter live ammunition, five AK-47 rifle magazines, two mobile phones, and a bunch of charms among other things were recovered in the course of scanning the scene.

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