Adamawa police kill two suspected criminals in operation to dislodge hideouts

The police in Adamawa state have killed two suspected criminals in an operation that dislodged identified hideouts.

The state police command said in a statement on Tuesday that its operatives trailed and dislodged the gangs of suspected criminals in Yola South and Fufore local government areas.

According to the statement, two of the suspected kidnappers who laid an ambush to prevent the security agents’ access to their hideouts were killed.

The police said, “The outcome of these successes followed a collaborative strategy designed by the command and the hunters to rescue the kidnapped victims and arrest the culprits.”

It added that two pump action guns, charms, chains and handsets were recovered and that the state Commissioner of Police had ordered that the fleeing suspects were pursued and prevented from regrouping anywhere in the state.