Bandits have killed nine persons and destroyed six houses in Zurak and Dakai communities in the Wase of Local Government Area of Plateau State.<\/p>\n
A statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Alfred Alabo, however, indicated that the bandits met an \u201caggressive onslaught\u201d by a combined team of security operatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of the bandits were killed and one arrested at the Bangalala forest in Wase which is a border between Plateau, Bauchi and Taraba states,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
According to him, other bandits who fled during the operation, attacked Zurak and Dakai Villages, killed nine persons and burnt down six houses.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cFollowing the incident, the Commissioner of Police deployed more operatives to the area and directed the area commander of Langtang to relocate to Wase with immediate effect<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the bandits, who escaped and went to seek treatment at a hospital in Wase, was arrested with gunshot wounds. He has been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
He noted that the commissioner, who commiserated with those who lost their loved ones, assured residents of the command of its readiness to secure lives and property in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bandits have killed nine persons and destroyed six houses in Zurak and Dakai communities in the Wase of Local Government Area of Plateau State. A statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Alfred Alabo, however, indicated that the bandits met an \u201caggressive onslaught\u201d by a combined team of security operatives. \u201cSome of the bandits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":32209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-32208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32211,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32208\/revisions\/32211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}