Kano Police Commissioner, Ibrahim Idris

By Ibrahim Shuaibu

Two gunmen were on Thursday shot dead by the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano while five others were arrested when the suspected gunmen attacked a JTF check point.

The incident happened around 3pm at a JTF check point in Mariri area along Wudil Road, Kano but the security officials manning the check point were able to repel the attack.

Eyewitness revealed that during the shoot-out between the gunmen and the JTF, two passers-byes, a man and a woman, were said to have been hit by stray bullets after being caught in the cross-fire.

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