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Troops of the 34 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Obinze, in Owerri, have confirmed that two security agents were killed during a raid in Osina, Ideato North council area of Imo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is contained in a statement issued by the Brigade\u2019s Acting Assistant Director of Army Public Relations, Capt. Joseph Akubo, and made available to newsmen in Owerri, on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akubo said that the terrorists were elements of the proscribed terrorist group of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its armed affiliate the Eastern Security Network (ESN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that the troops, while returning from routine patrols on Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, responded to a distress call of IPOB\/ESN attack on the Osina community where they engaged the terrorists with overwhelming firepower as the dissidents withdrew in disarray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, two security agents, not soldiers, were killed in action.
\u201c The corpses of the slain agents were recovered and the troops proceeded in pursuit of the fleeing terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Contact was again made with the criminal IPOB\/ESN elements at Nkwachi Community and in the firefight that ensued, one of the dissidents was neutralized while others who could not withstand the troop\u2019s fire power ran into the nearby forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c One AK-47 rifle with a fully loaded magazine was recovered. The unrelenting troops continued to pursue the remnant of the criminals deep into Umalouma forest where a heavy firefight further broke out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c The dissidents finally abandoned their weapons due to the troops\u2019 superior fire power and scampered into the thickly forested area with severe gunshot injuries \u201c, he said .
He added that an additional four Ak 47 rifles, one fabrique nationale rifle and five (2) magazines were recovered, making a total of five AK 47, and one FN rifles and a tear gas launcher were recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akubo also said that further exploitation is ongoing as troops will continue to trail the injured terrorists and smoke them out of their hideouts and places of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He urged all IPOB\/ESN irredentists and other criminal elements hiding in the bushes to surrender to the nearest troops\u2019 location or meet their waterloo as troops of the Brigade will continue to ensure that Imo people celebrate the Yuletide season in peace without fear or intimidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Akubo, however, appealed to peace loving Imo residents to continue to support the military by supplying timely intelligence on the hideouts and movements of the terrorists to enable security agencies rid the state of all criminality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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