On 04 /03/2022 at about 0040hrs, a distress call was received that terrorists in their numbers, on motorcycles, shooting sporadically with AK 47 rifles, attacked Gidan Nasheku, Kwantakwamawa village, Kankara LGA of Katsina state and kidnapped four members of the house, all female, one of them having a one and half year old baby.
2. Subsequently, DPO Kankara led a team of policemen to the area, blocked the hoodlums and engaged them in a gun duel.
The operational strategy and tactics exhbited by the policemen made the terrorists to flee and abandoned their heneous mission.
All the kidnapped victims were rescued unhurt. Some of the terrorists are reasonably suspected to have fled the scene with gun shots wounds.
A team of policemen are presently scanning the scene with a view to arresting the terrorists or recovering their dead bodies. Investigation is ongoing please.
