BEVERLY HILLS, April 21, (THEWILL) – Bandits on Wednesday invaded and set ablaze a vehicle and part of a military camp in Zazzaga community in Munya Local Government Area of Niger state.
THEWILL learnt that the bandits, numbering over 60, invaded the Zagzaga community in three groups around 4am.
One group went to the military camp located at the Junior Secondary School, while the second group laid ambush on the major road to the community.
The third group was said to have gone into the community to prevent any reinforcements from the vigilantes and youths.
The bandits were said to have engaged the soldiers in a gun battle for about two hours, which led to injuries on the part of the attackers.
Although, no soldier was killed in the attack, one officer identified as the RSM of the camp has been declared missing.
His whereabouts remain unknown as at the time of filing this report.
A security source said that after about a two-hour fire fight from 4am to 6am, the soldiers ran out of ammunition and made a retreat but not until they inflicted heavy casualties on the bandits.
The sources added that after the soldiers made their retreat, the bandits reportedly stormed the camp, set one of the military vehicles on fire and went away with another.
The bandits also burnt the food store in the camp.
“I think the bandits might have used the military vehicle to evacuate the injured ones and possibly some dead ones among them because the soldiers really fought them to a standstill until their ammunition finished,” the source said.
The latest attack comes barely three weeks after a similar one on a Security Joint Task Force base in Allawa and Basa in Shiroro Local Government Area, where five soldiers and a mobile policeman were killed.
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