The Borno State Police Command has denied reports that some policemen were abducted by the Islamic State in West Africa Province at the Mobile Police Training School in Limankara, Gwoza Local Government Area of the state.
Audu Umar, the state Commissioner of Police, disclosed this on Friday when he spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Umar, who spoke in Maiduguri, the state capital, said that the report claiming that unspecified number of policemen were abducted at the school was fake news.
Some reports had indicated that Islamic State of West Africa Province fighters abducted an unspecified number of policemen after an attack at the school at about 8:22am on Thursday.
But Umar said that no policeman was abducted during the incident, adding that all the 13 policemen at the school were safe and in good conditions as they successfully thwarted the terrorists’ attack.
He explained that the command did not lose personnel or weapon during the attack.
The Police Commissioner urged the media to always strive hard to authenticate its report before feeding the public.
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