Nine mobile police officers on Wednesday in Kano escaped death by whiskers, when some gunmen ambushed their moving truck, resulting in their admission at the Armed Forces Specialist Hospital.
The Mobile police officers were now lying critically ill at the hospital as Doctors are battling to save their lives, following a gun duel with terrorists.
The victims were mobile police officers been conveyed to their various duty posts before the sudden attack by suspected Boko Haram militants.
The attack, it was gathered occurred in Sharada Industrial Estate, located in Kano suburb at about 7 am yesterday.
This is happening in the heels of Tuesday’s attack on a female police officer, Maimuna Yusf, who was shot dead by gunmen at the GSM Village at the Farm Centre, as she was fixing her car.
As at the time of filing this report, no arrest has been made, as the militants were said to have disappeared into a crowd of people, making difficult for other officers to confront them adequately in order to avoid civilian casualties.
However, some unspecified number of civilians, mostly passers- by was reportedly hit by stray bullets, allegedly fired by the militants, according to spokesman of the Police Command, ASP Magaji Majiya.
The scene of the attack was cordoned off immediately by the JTF and Police and combed for possible suspects. Majiya said there was no arrest yet.
One of the injured police victims on admission at the Armed Forces Specialist Hospital who demanded anonymity said for the courage of the driver, who was able to control the truck after it was hit severally by explosives and bullets, they would have all been killed. His bravery prevented the truck from somersaulting as they all laid flat to avoid been hit by bullet.
The Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and former Lagos governor, Bolaji Tinubu visited the victims at the hospital.
Tinubu was in Kano to sympathize with the Emir, Alhaji Ado Bayero over the attack on his convoy that kept him in London for 38 days.
