Gunmen have killed scores of security operatives in Umualumaku, a community in Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, Nigeria’s South-east.
The incident happened at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES gathered.
Sources told this newspaper that the gunmen ambushed the security operatives, who were driving in two pick-up trucks to an unknown location, and opened fire on them, killing a yet-to-be-ascertained number of operatives.
A resident of the community, Henry Chukwuma, told PREMIUM TIMES that the security operatives were members of Search and Flush Team, a combined security outfit in the state comprising soldiers and personnel of the Nigeria Police Force.
Mr Chukwuma, who said the hoodlums killed all the security operatives in the two trucks, could not confirm the number of the operatives killed.
“The gunmen also burnt their corpses. So, nobody will be able to tell how many police officers and soldiers that were killed in the attack,” he said in…