The three gunrunners were intercepted while moving weapons into Nigeria at a border town between Sokoto State and Niger Republic.
The Nigerian Army has said its men in Sabon Birni, a border town between Sokoto State and Niger Republic, have intercepted and killed three gunrunners moving weapons on foot into Nigeria.
Army spokesperson, Mohammed Yerima, stated this on Wednesday in a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES.
The incident comes in a time when proliferation of small arms has been named as the major reason for insecurity across Nigeria with scores killed and kidnapped on a weekly basis.
Politicians have often been accused of being behind the proliferation of illegal firearms around the nation.
A former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, said recently that there are over six million weapons in circulation around the country.
Mr Yerima, a brigadier general, however, in the statement, said the three suspects were killed in a successful ambush laid by the army troops.