Police raid criminal hideout in Anambra, recover relief materials

The Anambra State Police Command has raided a criminal camp at Ogbunka in Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

A statement by the spokesperson for the command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, on Saturday, noted that the police-led joint security team comprising the Army, Navy, Department of State Services officials and vigilante group carried out the operation based on intelligence gathering.

Ikenga said the police team engaged the hoodlums in a gun battle for six hours, during which some of the criminals escaped from the scene with bullet wounds.

Some of the recovered relief materials. Credit: Anambra State Police Command 

He added that the team also recovered a lot of relief materials like pots, foodstuffs and parts of dismembered suspected stolen 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.

Some of the recovered relief materials. Credit: Anambra State Police Command 

“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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