Gunmen in search of arrested criminals attacked a police station in Zonkwa town, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State Where an unspecified number of officers in duty on Friday evening.
Witnesses told Daily Trust that immediately the attackers stormed the station located a few meters from Kamyim Hotel, Kurmin-Bi Zonkwa, they started shooting sporadically.
The hoodlums were said to raided the police station while searching for some suspected vandals earlier arrested in Kachia town.
“They believed that the suspects were being detained at the Zonkwa Police Station”
“However, it was later gathered that the suspects were not being held at the station. But the havoc had already been done”, according to a witness who preferred to remain anonymous.
TheNewspad gathered that the armed had fled the scene before the arrival of reforced police team from the Nigeria Police headquarters in Kaduna State, ahead of official statement from the police Command that is being awaited.
Recently at a public forum, the Governor of the State, has scored his administration 90 pass mark in crime reduction in Kaduna State.
