at least nine security forces are killed in the south-east of Nigeria armed group of unknown. This was announced on Sunday the newspaper Vanguard.
“The militants attacked on the evening of April 24, four checkpoints on the highway between the cities of Overrey and Port Harcourt in the state of Rivers and IMO,” said the interlocutor of the publication. According to him, two military personnel, four policemen, three employees of the militarized customs were killed. The attackers captured the weapons and kidnapped cars, burned one of the buildings of the checkpoint.
In the state of Rivers Action also tried to capture the police station in the city of Aikpo and the building of the local government, but in both cases were discarded by the fighters of security divisions.
Robbery on the roads turned over in the last two years in a serious problem for the Nigerian authorities. Numerous gangs stop cars, rob drivers and passengers, capture people hostage to get a redemption. As a result, militarized PPCs are now created on the main highways of the country, which are designed to ensure the normal movement of transport. However, militants attack and gearbox, killing security forces and kidding their weapons and transport.