{"id":98185,"date":"2022-08-15T23:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98185"},"modified":"2022-08-15T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:55:43","slug":"police-kill-scores-of-terrorists-in-katsina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/police-kill-scores-of-terrorists-in-katsina\/","title":{"rendered":"Police kill scores of terrorists in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah announced that the personnel repelled terrorists&#8217; attack and killed scores at Dadawa and Barkiya villages in Kurfi Local Government of the State.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to SP Isah, &#8220;today 15\/08\/2022 at about 0130hrs, a distress call was received that terrorists, numbering eighty (80), on motorbikes, armed with sophisticated weapons, simultaneously attacked Dadawa and Barkiya villages, Kurfi LGA of Katsina state.\u00a0 On receipt of the information, the Command deployed its tactical teams to the area and engaged the hoodlums into a fierce gun duel. The team successfully repelled the terrorists and recovered seventy-four (74) Sheep, thirty-four (34) Goats and two (2) cows.\u00a0 Many terrorists are feared to have been killed and\/or fatally wounded during the encounter.\u00a0 A team of policemen are still combing the area with a view to arresting the wounded terrorists and\/or recover their dead bodies.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He further said, the Commissioner of Police, Katsina State Command, CP Idrisu Dabban Dauda, appreciated the efforts of the personnel in repelling the terrorists and urged members of the public to continue to cooperate with security agencies in the ongoing campaign against terrorists in the State.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katsina State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Gambo Isah announced that the personnel repelled terrorists&#8217; attack and killed scores at Dadawa and Barkiya villages in Kurfi Local Government of the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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