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Gutsy bandits launch fatal attack on NDA, Kaduna, kill two soldiers, abduct one

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“The Academy in collaboration with the 1Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna state has since commenced pursuit of the unknown gunmen within the general area to track them and rescue the abducted personnel”
Two soldiers were killed by gutsy bandits and another abducted in the wee-hours of Tuesday, August 24 as they invaded the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.
The bandits had compromised the security architecture of the military institution located at Afaka in Igabi council area and gained access to the residential area of the Academy, the authorities of the Academy said.

The institution is located in the same area with the School of Forestry Mechanisation and Airport quarters where scores were abducted and later released after handsome ransoms were paid a few months ago.

 

“The security architecture of the Nigerian Defence Academy was compromised early this morning by unknown gunmen who gained access into the residential area within the Academy in Afaka.

“During the unfortunate incident, we lost two personnel and one was abducted,” the Academy’s spokesman, Major Bashir Muhd Jajira, said in a statement.

He said combined military personnel have been on the trail of the invaders to rescue the abductee and bring the bandits to book.

 

Jajira said: “The Academy in collaboration with the 1Division Nigerian Army and Air Training Command as well as other security agencies in Kaduna state has since commenced pursuit of the unknown gunmen within the general area to track them and rescue the abducted personnel.

 

“The NDA community and Cadets are safe in the Academy.

 

“We assure the public that this unknown gunmen would soon be apprehended and the abducted personnel rescued.”

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