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Landmine kills four security officers, civilians in Niger community

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Outcries follow as landmine planted by terrorists in the Galadima Kogo community of Niger State killed four security personnel and several yet-to-be-identified civilians.

TopNaija reports that the terrorists were said to have earlier attacked the communities of Gpekure, Makuba, and Galapai in the Shiroro Local Government, and killed eight persons on Sunday, February 20, kidnapped 13 others before they planted Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) in the area on 21st Monday morning.

The State Commissioner of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs, and Internal Security, Emmanuel Umar, confirmed the attacks in a phone interview.

In his words;

Both unfortunate attacks happened and unfortunately we lost some of our men and a number of yet-to-be-identified civilian casualties.

“We lost four of our security personnel who were in our security vehicle that ran on the bomb,”.

He further stated that he is yet to receive information from bomb experts for his next step of action.

“I and other security agencies are yet to get to the point where the explosion took place because we are waiting for the bomb experts to inform us of the safety of the areas before we can go there,” Umar stated.

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