 The Katsina State Police Command says its operatives have fought a kidnap attempt by bandits at Kijom Village Mahuta Award Dandemi Local Government Area and rescued nine people initially kidnapped. The command also said that several bandits who sustained injuries during a fees encounter with its operatives during the rescue operation escaped into the forest with injuries. The spokesman for the command SP Gambo Issa announced this in a statement made available to journalists in Katsina on Friday. The command employed residents of the state, particularly those in the frontline councils, to cooperate with security agencies by giving them credible information on bandits and collaborators, especially those supplying them with arms and ammunition, informant in other essential commodities.