A police officer assigned to protect travellers has been killed. The police personnel was killed by some suspected armed bandits who attacked a travelling commercial bus in Zamfara State.
It was reported that the ugly incident occurred while the vehicle was travelling from Dansadau to Gusau, the Zamfara state capital.
A reports on the incident, revealed that one of the vehicles that was been escorted broke down on the road and while it was been fixed, the bandits appeared from a near by bush and started shooting sporadically, thereby killing the police operative providing security cover.
“One of the vehicles which they were escorting broke down. So as they were waiting to give security cover to the driver to fix the vehicle, the bandits opened fire on them, killing one officer,” a source quoted by Sahara Reporters said.
