A police inspector identified as Donfa Chirtip, has reportedly been killed by unknown gunmen in Kurmin Kare area of Kachia Local Government Area, Kaduna State.
Report has it that the gunmen also abducted the officers wife, Victoria.
According to Security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, Donfa, who was attached to the Special Protection Unit Base 7, Abuja, was reportedly attacked on his way back from his farmland with his wife on Friday.
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Zagazola noted that the lifeless body of officer Donfa was found in a farmland within the community that same day.
“The deceased, identified as Inspector Donfa Chirtip of the Special Protection Unit Base 7, Abuja, was discovered lifeless on Friday evening with a deep cut on his neck in a farmland within the village. Joint patrol teams swiftly moved to the scene, where the officer’s body was found,” he wrote.
“Preliminary investigation suggests that the inspector and his wife, Mrs. Victoria Chirtip, had gone to the farm earlier in the morning around 7:00 a.m. on a motorcycle.
“They were believed to have been ambushed by unknown assailants on their way back in the evening.”
The remains of the officer was taken to Doka General Hospital, where he was confirmed dead by a medical officer and further deposited in the hospital morgue.
Meanwhile, efforts are been made to locate the missing wife and apprehend the suspects behind the attack.
