Bandits block major road, shoot retired Army General

Terror bandits on Sunday shot retired General Lawal B. Muhammad, the Director General of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG).

This medium gathered that General Muhammad was shot by the criminal elements during an attack on motorists at Kucheri village in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara.

Dailytrust quoting a source from Zamfara State Ministry of Internal Security, reports that the DG was receiving medical treatment at a Hospital in Gusau, the state capital.

“It is confirmed that the bandits shot DG Community Protection Guards and he is currently receiving treatment at Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital,” the source said.

Though, the attack comes days after bandits killed at least eight CPG operatives and a commercial driver in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara.

Newsband understand that the bandits ambushed the CPG personnel before killing them.

Also, the bandits engaged soldiers in a gun battle at Unguwar Chida village, killing a commercial driver and injuring three soldiers.

Unguwar Chida is a village just a few metres away from Magazu on the same Funtua-Gusau road.

The two separate attacks, according to a resident of Unguwar Chida, were carried out almost at the same time.

While reacting to that attack, the General who was shot, had said, “After I realised that bandits have made operations in Tsafe a routine exercise, I deployed 105 CPG personnel to the local government and stationed them at this particular point to protect travellers.

“Unfortunately, the bandits on Sunday ambushed my boys. I suspect that the bandits slept there because my boys used to go there early in the morning. So, while my boys were about to come down from their patrol van, the bandits opened fire and killed some of them on the spot. It is quite unfortunate.”

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