Bandits have shot the Director General of the Zamfara State Community Protection Guards (CPG), retired General Lawal B. Muhammad.
The bandits shot at Muhammad during an attack on motorists at Kucheri village in Tsafe local government area of Zamfara State.
The gunmen reportedly blocked the busy Funtua-Tsafe road late evening, and attacked motorists including the CPG’s DG.
The attackers kidnapped scores during the operation.
It was learnt from the Zamfara State Ministry of Internal Security, that the DG was receiving treatment at Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, in Gusau, the state capital.
The incident comes days after gunmen killed eight CPG personnel and a commercial driver in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara.
It was learnt that the bandits who ambushed the CPG personnel before killing them, also confronted soldiers in a gun duel at Unguwar Chida village, killing a commercial driver and injuring three soldiers.
Unguwar Chida is a village just a few metres away from Magazu on the same Funtua-Gusau road.
A local of Unguwar Chida, said the two attacks were carried out almost at the same time.
General Muhammad said, “After I realised that bandits have made operations in Tsafe a routine exercise, I deployed 105 CPG personnel to the local government and stationed them at this particular point to protect travellers.
“Unfortunately, the bandits on Sunday ambushed my boys. I suspect that the bandits slept there because my boys used to go there early in the morning. So, while my boys were about to come down from their patrol van, the bandits opened fire and killed some of them on the spot. It is quite unfortunate.”
