By Muhd A. Haidar, Dutse
A gang of bandits on friday morning killed two Divisional Crime Officers (DCO) I and II, Dankaka Mohd and Shitu Umar and one other police officer was injured in a gun battle at Kalgo village of Garki local government area of Jigawa state.
An eye witness Inuwa Kalgo told hotpen that a combined team of security operatives arrived in their patrol vehicles were they went to a nearby bush to locate the hide out of the criminals. He added that the bandits ambushed the police and in the cause of exchanging fire two senior police officers were killed instantly and one other police injured.
The two DCO’s killed are working with Maigatari Divisional Police Headquarters where they were informed on the incident and they quickly went to the scene on reinforcement but met their untimely death, the other police officer who was injured is currently at Gumel general hospital receiving treatment.
Kalgo village was said to be a suspected bandits hideout, it was the place where the mother of late member state assembly and the daughter of former Jigawa speaker was found after their kidnapped.
The bandits killed Divisional Police Officer of Maigatari last week on his way to Bosuwa to rescue the abducted victims (Zainab Isah Zakari and one other male).
Contacted the PPRO Jigawa state Command, SP Abdu Jinjiri confirmed the incident that, bandits have killed their two senior police officers in a gun battle and one injured at Kalgo village in Garki LGA of the state.
SP Jinjiri explained that he is yet to receive full details on the incident, “I’m still waiting for details on the unfortunate incident, but will get back to you as soon as I got it”. He noted.