Police and armed men clash at Rafin Makuku/Makuku village near the Kebbi-Zamfara border in Kebbi State, with multiple reports saying 10 police officers are killed and 17 suspected bandits are also killed.
The incidents are reported to involve a group of armed men moving from Zamfara toward Kebbi. Vanguard reports that several other bandits are injured, and places the fight in Makuku village in the Zuru Emirate area. Daily Post Nigeria similarly describes the fighting near Rafin Makuku in Sakaba Local Government Area and adds that two civilians are killed.
While both outlets agree on the main casualty figures and the border area location, they differ on details such as the reported number of injured bandits and whether civilians are explicitly mentioned as fatalities. Both present the events as an exchange of gunfire between police and “bandits”/armed attackers during an operation in the region.
