{"id":117094,"date":"2024-04-26T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2"},"modified":"2024-04-26T23:14:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T22:14:04","slug":"nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian military commander reportedly shot dead in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The commander of a military camp at Sabon Garin Dan\u2019Ali, in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been reportedly killed in an ambush.<\/p>\n<p>According to Daily Trust, sources said the incident took place on Thursday, adding that the corpse of the deceased, alleged to be a major in the army, was deposited at a hospital in Katsina.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said it gathered from reliable sources that the commander, whose name was withheld, was ambushed at Malali village in Kankara local government area, where he was called to provide reinforcement to repel an attack on the village.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you know, Malali is along Zangon Pawwa road, and that area is completely taken over by bandits. Whenever there is an attack the security agents usually ask for reinforcement from the Maraban Dan\u2019Ali camp, and this new commander would promptly respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time around, they asked for his reinforcement and he came using a Hilux vehicle, instead of the Amoured Personnel Carrier (APC), perhaps the APCs were not available at the time. Unfortunately his assailants waylaid his vehicle and shot him in the head,\u201d a source said.<\/p>\n<p>An unnamed resident narrated that there was a serious gun duel between the bandits and the military personnel during which the officer who picked the body also sustained gunshot injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the residents of the village alerted the security agents of the impending attack, the security personnel went and shot severally in the air without any response from the bandits, and by then the commander was on his way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the security operatives fired some shots at the direction suspected to have the bandits, they left, thinking that no one was there, but by the time the commander arrived, they targeted him and shot him,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<p>The local government has recently come under serious attacks, with villages abandoning their communities due to incessant banditry.<\/p>\n<p>Public Relations Officer of the 17 Brigade in Katsina, Oiza Ehinlaidlye, was yet to reply to inquiries, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The commander of a military camp at Sabon Garin Dan\u2019Ali, in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been reportedly killed in an ambush. According to Daily Trust, sources said the incident took place on Thursday, adding that the corpse of the deceased, alleged to be a major in the army, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":117093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1570,2140,225,254],"class_list":["post-117094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-katsina","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian military commander reportedly shot dead in Katsina - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The commander of a military camp at Sabon Garin Dan\u2019Ali, in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been rep ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian military commander reportedly shot dead in Katsina\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The commander of a military camp at Sabon Garin Dan\u2019Ali, in Danmusa Local Government Area of Katsina State, has been rep ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-26T19:13:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-26T22:14:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/sm_1714153167.347645.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian military commander reportedly shot dead in Katsina\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-26T19:13:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-26T22:14:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\"},\"wordCount\":354,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/sm_1714153167.347645.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Katsina\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-military-commander-reportedly-shot-dead-in-katsina-2\",\"name\":\"Nigerian military commander reportedly shot dead in Katsina - 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