At least one security operative and six gunmen were killed in Anambra State during a deadly gun battle between a joint team of security operatives and a terror group in the state.
Tochukwu Ikenga, the police spokesman in Anambra State, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Mr Ikenga, a superintendent of police, said the shootout occurred on Saturday at Amiyi, a community in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra.
The spokesman said the joint security team killed the six gunmen when they raided a hideout of the suspected criminals in a forest in the community.
The joint team, he said, comprised police operatives from the Rapid Response Squad in Awkuzu; personnel of the State Security Service; officials of the 302 Artillery Regiment in Onitsha; officers of the Nigerian Navy from Ogbaru; and members of the Agunaechemba Vigilante group in the community.
