Troops arrest three suspected gun runners, rescue six victims in Zamfara 

Troops of the 1 Brigade, Nigerian Army, operating nether Operation FANSAN YAMMA, person arrested 3 suspected weapon runners and rescued six victims from a violent onslaught successful abstracted operations successful Zamfara State.

This was contained successful a property connection signed by Captain Yusuf Mohammed, Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 1 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Gusau.

The operations were carried retired on the Kauran Namoda–Shinkafi and Anka–Gummi axes of the authorities on Sunday.

At astir 2:05 p.m., troops conducting a stop-and-search cognition on the Kauran Namoda–Shinkafi Road intercepted a Golf Wagon with registration fig BMJ-143AA and arrested 3 occupants suspected of transporting firearms.

The suspects were identified arsenic Lukman Sulaiman, 20; Nafiu Isa, 18, some from Yar-Galadima, Dan-Sadau District; and the 60-year-old operator of the vehicle, Adamu Lawali.

According to him, troops recovered 1 AK-103-2 rifle, 1 mag and 30 rounds of 7.62mm Special ammunition concealed wrong a container of millet successful the vehicle.

Preliminary investigations indicated that the suspects were allegedly transporting the firearm to Yar-Galadima successful Maru Local Government Area.

The 2 younger suspects reportedly claimed that an Alhaji nonmigratory successful Gusau, whom they identif...