{"id":129014,"date":"2024-08-26T22:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims"},"modified":"2024-08-26T23:38:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:38:21","slug":"bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims","title":{"rendered":"Bandit attack foiled in Katsina as Police rescue 5 kidnapped victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have foiled two bandits\u2019 attacks and rescued five kidnapped victims in Malumfashi local government area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued by the command\u2019s Spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, on Monday in Katsina.<\/p>\n<p>He said the police also neutralised two bandits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dOn Sunday, a distress call was received at the Malumfashi Divisional police headquarters, from Layin Minister Village that bandits attacked and kidnapped five people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon receipt of the report, operatives were quickly dispatched to the scene. On noticing the presence of the police operatives, the hoodlums opened fire and the team responded gallantly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the kidnapped victims were rescued unhurt, as the assailants succumbed to the superior firepower of the operatives and fled the scene with various degrees of bullet wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Sadiq-Aliyu, on the same date, another distress call was received at the same headquarters, that some suspected armed bandits riding on twelve (12) motorcycles, wielding dangerous weapons were shooting sporadically.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took advantage of the downpour and attacked Marabar Kankara village, Malumfashi LGA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn receipt of the information, DPO Malumfashi swiftly mobilised operatives to the scene gallantly engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel and successfully foiled the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the course of scanning the scene, the bodies of two neutralised suspected armed bandits were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts are being intensified to ensure the arrest of the fleeing suspects as the investigation proceeds,\u201d Sadiq-Aliyu said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have foiled two bandits\u2019 attacks and rescued five kidnapped victims in Malumfashi local government area of the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the command\u2019s Spokesman, ASP Abubakar Sadiq, on Monday in Katsina. He said the police also neutralised two bandits. \u201dOn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":129013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[225,254,165],"class_list":["post-129014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-katsina","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"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>Bandit attack foiled in Katsina as Police rescue 5 kidnapped victims - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have foiled two bandits\u2019 attacks and rescued five kidnapped victims in Ma ...\" \/>\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\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bandit attack foiled in Katsina as Police rescue 5 kidnapped victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Operatives of the Katsina State Police Command have foiled two bandits\u2019 attacks and rescued five kidnapped victims in Ma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-26T21:27:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-08-26T22:38:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724699263.949686.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"754\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"417\" \/>\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\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Bandit attack foiled in Katsina as Police rescue 5 kidnapped victims\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-26T21:27:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-08-26T22:38:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\"},\"wordCount\":261,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/08\/sm_1724699263.949686.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Katsina\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/bandit-attack-foiled-in-katsina-as-police-rescue-5-kidnapped-victims\",\"name\":\"Bandit attack foiled in Katsina as Police rescue 5 kidnapped victims - 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