{"id":963,"date":"2022-07-17T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/security-operatives-neutralise-armed-men-recover-one-human-skull-in-anambra\/"},"modified":"2022-07-17T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T10:24:15","slug":"security-operatives-neutralise-armed-men-recover-one-human-skull-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.securityfocus.ng\/index.php\/2022\/07\/17\/security-operatives-neutralise-armed-men-recover-one-human-skull-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Operatives Neutralise Armed Men, Recover One Human Skull In Anambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>The Police Command in Anambra on Saturday confirmed killing of two of its operatives and one civilian car tracker by criminals at Amukabra Achalla Awka North Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga in a statement on in Awka said the trio were killed after the hoodlums kidnapped them while on a mission to recover a stolen vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga said the incident which happened on Friday July 15, made police to launch a counter attack during which it uncovered that the two police and civilian car tracker had been killed and their bodies set ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police team was on a recovery operation of a Toyota Sienna Space Wagon vehicle earlier snatched at gun point on July 9, at Oye-Agu Abagana community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour of the Police operatives escaped the ambush, while two of the police operatives and the car tracker were captured by the criminals.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the counter offensive operation, police neutralised some of the armed men and destroyed three of their camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, some of the hoodlums escaped with bullet wounds, haven already murdered their captives and set their bodies ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe remains of the two murdered police officers and the civilian tracker have been recovered and deposited in a morgue, while police operation is still ongoing in the area to track the fleeing gang members,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman also said they recovered one human skull, two locally made Rocket Propelled Grande (RPG) bombs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Others items recovered were; one single barrel long gun, empty chain of bullet, one Toyota Sienna, one Mercedes Benz Formatic jeep, and two cylinders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that the team equally recovered; huge quantity of hard drugs of different kinds, one police beret and belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statement quoted the Commissioner of Police, (CP) Echeng Echeng to have condoled families of the murdered civilian and police operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the CP described the incident as a classic example of the risk and sacrifices the police are exposed to in the onerous task of serving and protecting the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CP, therefore, assured Anambra people of the effort toward total reclamation and domination of all the public spaces hintherto occupied by hoodlums in the State.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawan Jimeta, the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5 Command in Benin on Wednesday advised the 51 newly promoted officers in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-instagram"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.5) - 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