Hoodlums Overpower Police, Burn Police Station, three Car in Sokoto State

Sokoto is the latest state in Nigeria to witness some sort of insurrection as Nigeria continues to witness mounting insecurity

– A group of hoodlums in the northwest state have attacked a police station and burnt down the facility – The hoodlums also burnt down a senior officer’s car and two police vans parked in the station

Hoodlums in Sokoto on Tuesday, April 27 burnt down a police station in Kware local government area of the state. The mob, mostly youths, came to the station shouting and insisting that two suspects arrested for alleged kidnapping should be released.

The hoodlums overpowered the operatives guarding the station and burnt it down along with a car owned by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, and two police vans.

Governor Aminu Tambuwal is yet to make a statement on the incident.

The incident was confirmed by the Sokoto state police command through its spokesman, Abubakar Sanusi, an Assistant Supredentent of Police.

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