It was gathered that the military men engaged in a long gun duel with the bandits who arrived at about 4:00am on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
They reportedly shared themselves into three groups: one group at the Military Camp located at the Junior Secondary School, the second group at the major road leading to the community and the third group to the community to prevent any reinforcements from the vigilantes and the youths.
A Daily Trust report stated that the duo exchanged gunfire from 4:00am to 6:00am, before the soldiers ran out of ammunition and made a retreat.
It added that the soldiers beat a retreat after they ran out of ammunition, and the bandits stormed the camp, set military vehicles on fire, took one away and burnt the food store in the camp.
“I think the bandits might have used the Military Vehicle to evacuate the injured ones and possibly some dead ones among them because the Soldiers really fought them until they ran out of ammunition.
“The bandits came around 4:00am and since that time, we were hearing gun shots till about 6:00am.”
The Military Camp in Zagzaga has been in existence since 2012 when the activities of the bandits took a different dimension with the killing of no fewer than 50 members of the community in one month.