Bandits in the early hours of Monday killed a police inspector identified as Idris Musa in Katsina State.
The gunmen who blocked the Katsina-Jibia road also set the officer’s car ablaze.
Reports said the late Idris was on his way to work when he was ambushed and killed by the terrorists.
The killers also kidnapped scores of passengers during the operation at Makera community, which is a few kilometers from Katsina State capital.
Confirming the report to newsmen, the spokesman of the Katsina Police Command, SP Gambo Isah said the deceased police officer made an unsuccessful attempt to repel the terrorists before he was killed in an ambush by the hoodlums who shot him at close-range resulting in his death.
“The Police Inspector, Idris Musa was on his way from Jibia to Katsina for his routine assignment when he ran into the bandits who mounted a roadblock along Makera community in the early hours on Monday.
“They killed him on the spot and set his vehicle ablaze. They also abducted many passengers who boarded some commercial vehicles from Jibia Local Government to Katsina town for their daily businesses,” he disclosed.
