Tag: Corpses
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Bandits attack: Police recover 10 corpses in Benue communities
The Benue Police Command says it has recovered 10 corpses of villagers killed by suspected armed bandits in Tse-Audu and Enger villages in Gwer West Local Government Area of the state. In a statement on Friday in Makurdi, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Moses Yamu said the corpses were victims of the Thursday…
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Boko Haram: 48 corpses of slain soldiers, civilians arrive Maiduguri
Forty-eight corpses of persons killed by Boko Haram insurgents during an oil exploration to the Lake Chad Basin have been brought to the Maiduguri Teaching Hospital in the Borno State capital. Sources at the UMTH and the Maimalari Army Barrack told newsmen that the corpses were brought into Maiduguri from the scene of the attack.…
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Boko Haram: Troops rescue NNPC kidnapped Staff, recover corpses
The Army said it had rescued all the NNPC staff kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Borno on Tuesday. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, also said that the corpses of an officer, eight soldiers and a civilian, who died in the incident had…
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Akwa Ibom to bury 200 abandoned corpses
As part of plans to decongest public storage facilities in the state, the Akwa Ibom State Government has said it will organize a mass burial for over 200 abandoned bodies deposited in the some morgues in the first quarter of 2017. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dominic Ukpong, revealed this in Uyo on Thursday…
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Nigerian troops recover concealed terrorists’ corpses, grenades
Nigerian troops have recovered bodies of terrorists, 36 hand grenades and one 12.7 X 108mm round of ammunition concealed by terrorists in the general area of Baga, Kangarwa and Dogonchikun in Borno. Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, a Nigerian Army officer, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. He said the troops of 119 Task Force Battalion…
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Army recover corpses of 15 soldiers, officers declared missing in Borno
The Nigerian Army said it had recovered corpses of “one officer and 15 soldiers’’ earlier declared “Missing in Action” during an operation to dislodge the Boko Haram insurgents from Gashigar Area in Borno on October 16, 2016. The Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj.- Gen. Lucky Irabor, disclosed this at a weekly review of…