ABUJA: At least nine provincial security operatives keeping guard in a local community were recently killed in an ambush by a group of gunmen in Nigeria's state of Zamfara.
Dauda Lawal, governor of Zamfara, said in a statement that the civil guards operating under the state's Community Protection Guards scheme were gunned down by the gunmen who laid an ambush for them at a security checkpoint on the outskirts of Tsafe, a town in the Tsafe local government area.
"The bandits' ambush on our guards is a cowardly act, as they were dispersed and on the run due to sustained troops' onslaught across the state, " Lawal said of the incident, Xinhua news agency reported.
The governor also hinted about the injuries sustained by other security operatives during the attack but did not give a figure of the injured casualties.