SAA
SAA event in Enugu, Enugu area, Nigeria on Mon 18th September 2023
18th September 2023
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Operatives of the Nigerian Army in collaboration with men of the Nigeria Police Force have killed six Indigenous People of Biafra combatants in Enugu and Abia states.
The IPOB fighters who were planning to enforce their sit-at-home order were said to have engaged the security operatives in a fierce gun battle during a clearance operation on Monday morning.
A statement by the Director, of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said several hideouts of the fighters were destroyed during the operations.
The statement read, “Joint troops of 82 Division Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Police have neutralized three combatants of the Indigenous People of Biafra and its armed affiliate, Eastern Security Network in a fierce encounter that ensued during a clearance operation in the early hours of Monday 18 September 2023 at Igboro Forest, between Arochukwu and Ohafia Local Government Areas of Abia state.
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