• Over 100 bandits killed
• DSS Role unclear
Details emerged on how the members of the Zamfara Civil Protection Guards on Monday evening launched a surprise offensive against hundreds of suspicions that are believed to be faithful to the sought -after terrorist Kingpin, Bello Turji.
At the end of the attack that took place near Cida, a remote village in the area of the local government of Shinkafi of the state, over 100 suspicions were lying dead, with dozens of weapons, which included assorted rifles, machine guns and thousands of bullets, were recovered from the dead bandits.
A security sounce revealed that the state government had mobilized hundreds of guards and, for days, felt in a secret position on the strategies to capture Turji and its commanders.
According to the source, even if the operation had the support of the state government of Zamfara, it could not confirm whether an agent of the Department of State Services (DSS) was involved.
He reported that sightings of sightings that seemed civil fighters of the Task Force Joint (CJTF) from the State of Borno.
“After the bloody fire, we counted over 100 corpses of fighters loyal to Turji. Initially we thought we had been killed. However, a Turji video released the following day showing that he and some loyalists who celebrated the bodies of at least nine vigilantes killed in the struggle led us to believe that, in some way, he managed to escape.
“The offensive against the leader of terrorists and his loyalists was intensified with the Zcpg determined to take the fight for Turji,” he said.
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