POLICE STORM CRIMINAL CAMP IN ANAMBRA, SEIZE RELIEF ITEMS
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The Anambra State Police Command has dismantled a criminal hideout in Ogbunka, Orumba South Local Government Area.
According to a statement on Saturday by the command’s spokesperson, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, a joint security team comprising the Police, Army, Navy, DSS, and local vigilantes conducted the raid following intelligence reports.
Ikenga revealed that the team engaged the suspects in a six-hour gunfight, during which several criminals fled with gunshot wounds.
He also disclosed that the operatives recovered numerous items, including cooking utensils, food supplies, and parts of what are believed to be stolen, dismembered vehicles.
He said, “The Police-led Joint Security Team comprising the Army, from the 302 Artillery Regiment (GS), Navy from the Naval Command, Department of State Security, Anambra State Vigilante, acting on information received over time, dislodged a criminal Camp at Ogbunka.
“The Joint Security Team, in a six-hour gun battle with the armed criminals, due to its superior firepower, diffused some explosives used as shields on the camp by the hoodlums. The team also recovered a lot of relief materials like pots, foodstuffs and parts of dismembered suspected stolen vehicles, even as some of the criminals escaped with various degrees of bullet injuries inflicted on them.
“The operatives have taken over the area to sustain security dominance aimed at addressing any untoward situation that may arise and to possibly arrest the fleeing suspects. Given the above, the Anambra State Police Command assures on behalf of other security agencies that the confidence reposed in her by Ndi Anambra and residents alike for the protection of lives and properties is not taken for granted.”
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