At least three police officers have been killed and two others injured after suspected terrorists attacked a Police Mobile Force (PMF) camp in Tenebo community, Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State.\n<\/p>\n
The attack, which occurred in the early hours of Saturday, caused panic in the agrarian community as residents fled their homes following heavy gunfire.\n<\/p>\n
Sources said the assailants arrived in large numbers and launched a surprise attack on the PMF camp, overpowering officers on duty before killing three and injuring two others.\n<\/p>\n
A resident, Suleiman Issa, described the moment of the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ugly killings happened at the early hours of 1am, just at midnight in Tenebo village, Kaiama.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA terrible situation happened! Bandits came in their large numbers and invaded the villagers, people were killed and some were wounded,\u201d Issa said. <\/p>\n
The spokesperson for the Kwara State Police Command, Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cI regret to confirm that an attack on the PMF Camp occurred in the early hours of today. I will provide more accurate and detailed information shortly. Thank you,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n
The latest attack highlights continued insecurity in parts of Kaiama Local Government Area, where armed groups have repeatedly targeted communities and security formations.\n<\/p>\n
On April 20, suspected terrorists reportedly overran a joint security outpost in Kemanji community, killing at least three soldiers and two vigilantes and carting away an army gun truck and other equipment.\n<\/p>\n
On April 10, five members of a local forest guard unit were killed in Nuku community, with attackers also burning operational vehicles and facilities.\n<\/p>\n
The violence follows an earlier February 2026 incident in Woro and Nuku communities, where over 200 people were reportedly killed and about 176 abducted, including women and children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least three police officers have been killed and two others injured after suspected terrorists attacked a Police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[109906,22430,9728,8479,2536,667,38631,6498,122,8483,25884,29814,109907,109908,109909,5315,109910,2520],"class_list":{"0":"post-215569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-adetoun-ejire-adeyemi","9":"tag-bandit-attack","10":"tag-banditry","11":"tag-crime-news","12":"tag-gunmen","13":"tag-insecurity","14":"tag-kaiama","15":"tag-kwara-state","16":"tag-nigeria","17":"tag-nigeria-police","18":"tag-nigeria-security","19":"tag-nigerian-police","20":"tag-pmf-camp","21":"tag-police-attack","22":"tag-police-mobile-force","23":"tag-police-officers","24":"tag-tenebo-community","25":"tag-terrorism"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116505536259149762","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}