The State Security Service (SSS) operatives in Bauchi on Sunday repelled an attack by gunmen on their training school, killing two of the attackers.
The State Security Service (SSS) operatives in Bauchi on Sunday repelled an attack by gunmen on their training school, killing two of the attackers.
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Confirming the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Bauchi State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Ladan, said that one of the attackers had been apprehended.
“I am just coming from the scene. Two of the assailants were killed while one of them was arrested alive.
“The arrested person told us that they were four in number. It means that one of them has escaped,” Ladan told NAN.
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According to him, a rod and wire cutter, pair of pliers, ropes, spanner and cell phones were recovered at the scene.
He, however, said apart from the two people killed, no other lives were lost, adding that no damage was done to property at the Senior Staff Training School of the SSS.
An Assistant Director of the SSS, Mr. Olu Justine, said that intelligence report on an impending attack on the school had earlier been gathered while the operatives were placed on alert.
Justine said five gunmen came for the operation at about 4 a.m. and that two of them entered the school through a water way.
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