Four suspected hoodlums have been killed by Operatives of the Imo state Police Command, during an attack on Omuma Police Division in Oru East Local Government Area of the State, in the early hours of Sunday.
The State Commissioner of Police, CP Rabiu Hussaini who confirmed this to journalists through the Command’s Public Relations Officer, Micheal Abattam, said the hoodlums shot sporadically but were swiftly repelled by its tactical teams and operatives of the DSS who responded immediately.
He disclosed that the four hoodlums, suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/Eastern Security Network terrorist group, came in large numbers, with various calibres of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) to Omuma Police Station on the 20th March, 2022, at about 0300 hours.
“The Police Operatives engaged them in a fierce gun duel and in the process, four of the bandits were neutralized on the spot, while others scampered into the bush having suffered a huge defeat, with a number of them sustaining various degrees of bullet wounds.”
“There was no casualty on the side of the joint security operatives.”
“On the spot, five undetonated different capacities of Improvised Explosives Devices were recovered from the neutralized bandits and charms.”
“The Police Bomb Unit have taken custody of the bombs for detonation,”Abattam added.
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