Two soldiers were killed and five others injured when they rammed into bandits’ ambush at Unguwar Lalle village in Sabon Birni local government area of Sokoto State.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE gathered that the bandits attacked the village around 2pm on Wednesday but were repelled by soldiers deployed to the area, who had sought re-enforcement from a military base in Sabon Birni town.
The bandits, in large numbers, were said to have laid an ambush for the re-enforcement team, killed two of the soldiers and injured five others.
“As I am talking to you, we are all out in confusion and total apprehension,” a resident of Sabon Birni town who pleaded not to be named said
“The corpses of the two soldiers are in my front at the general hospital of Sabon Birni and the five injured soldiers are here two.
“I saw them when they were living for Unguwar Lelle in response to a distress call, only for them to run into an ambush by these bloodsuckers,” he added.
The resident said the bandits also razed down two patrol vehicles of the soldiers.
The source told 21st CENTURY CHRONICLE that the bandits would have suffered casualties too but the problem was “they don’t leave their corpses behind”.
“We are in total apprehension. There is never a day passed without a recorded attack in one of our villages,” the source said.
“We want the state and the federal government to provide more security operatives in the area and they should be provided with modern equipment.
“We don’t have more than 20 security personnel in the whole of Sabon Birni which are not enough, because Sabon Birni is a border community with a large population,” he said
When contacted, the spokesman of the Nigerian Army, Brig-Gen Onyeoku said he was not briefed about the development.
