Gunmen Set Eight Soldiers, Policemen, Civil Defence Ablaze in Imo

• Kazeem Badmus

No fewer than eight security agents comprising soldiers, policemen and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, were burnt to death by gunmen in Imo State.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the happened on Tuesday morning in Umualumaku community, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state.

According to sources, the joint security taskforce team who were in two security trucks were ambushed and set ablaze by their attackers.

None of them survived as they were burnt inside their operational vehicles.

A security operative who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that reinforcement teams had been sent to the scene of the crime with the intent to arrest the suspects and rescue the corpses of the slain security operative.

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A resident in the community who do not want to reveal his identity for security said that he saw the security agents a few minutes before they were set ablaze.

He said that the community had been thrown into confusion, owing to the development.

When contacted, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, confirmed the development but asked for time to get the full details of the horrible incident.