Troops of Operation Forest Sanity have rescued three victims from a raid on a bandits’ hideout around Kuriga-Manini-Udawa general areas, along the Chikun-Birnin Gwari boundary of Kaduna State.
Commissioner for Internal Security and Homes Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, in a statement issued on Wednesday, said the troops acting on credible intelligence carried out search-and-rescue operations at the hideout located around Ungwan Malam Ali.
Aruwan said the victims had been returned to their community while the troops would continue to carry out operations in the general areas.
On tuesday the same troops freed a mother, her four children, and two adults from the forest around Chikun and Birnin Gwari area of the state.
