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Troops launch devastating attack on Benue’s terrorists’ hideout, eliminate 5

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Five terrorists operating in Sankera axis comprising of Ukum, Kastina/Ala and Logo local government areas of Benue State have been killed by troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS).

The Special Adviser to Governor Samuel Ortom on Security, Lt. Col. Paul Hembah disclosed this while briefing newsmen in Màkurdi.

He said in Utange council ward of Kastina-Ala, troops of OPWS and community volunteer guards on a patrol encountered some bandits and in a gun duel, and killed two of them on Tuesday.

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“The bandits on a reprisal attack on Wednesday attacked a volunteer guard who was on patrol and killed him. On Thursday troops on patrol encountered the bandits in Utange council ward and in a gun battle three were killed,” he said.

Hembah said bandits in the area had formed an alliance with some armed herdsmen to use their camps as shields especially when the pressure is on them from security agencies, and they sometimes attack and flee to Taraba State.

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