Ø One soldier killed
A brave soldier paid the supreme price when troops of the Nigerian Army’s ‘Operation Sahel Sanity’ battled bandits, killing three of them and rescuing three nursing mothers along with their infants in Katsina State, a statement by the military said yesterday.
According to the statement issued by the Army’s Acting Director of Defence Media Operations, Brigadier-General Bernard Onyeuko, the incident occurred on Thursday when troops, responding to a distress call about the activities of bandits at Diskuru village, in Faskari local government area of the state, engaged the criminals in a gun battle.
Onyeuko said the troops however repelled the attack, killing three of the bandits and forcing the others to flee, with many of them believed to have sustained various degrees of gunshot wounds.
According to him, two additional bodies of bandits were discovered along their withdrawal route. He, however, announced that one brave soldier died in an attempt to save one of the rescued nursing mothers in the heat of the battle. He commended the troops in the region generally for their gallant efforts.
Bandits had attacked the village around 5:30 am on motorcycles, killing several persons in the village.
