Fourteen armed bandits were early hours of Sunday, reportedly gunned down during a gun duel with the police in the Katsina-Ala town, Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State.
The armed bandits were said to have met their waterloo when they stormed a police station in the town where some of the bandits were being detained.
A source from the town who simply identified himself as Kajo said that the bandits numbering about 50 had driven in Toyota Corolla vehicles popularly known as ‘duck nyash’ to the police station.
It was reliably gathered that the police engaged the bandits in a gun duel leading to the death of 14 of the attackers.
“We started hearing gunshots around 1:30 am today (Sunday) around the police station in Katsina-Ala town, everybody in the neighborhood was woken up with the sporadic gunshots and praying to God.
“It was around 5:00am that some leaders in the area visited the station after they had contacted the Divisional Police Officer, DPO.
” Surprisingly, the police gunned down over 10 of these bandits while many of them escaped with gun wounds. We also heard that two of them were captured alive”.
