The Commanding Officer of Special Operation
Battalion, Mubi, Lt.- Col. Beyidi Martins, on Sunday confirmed the arrest of 11
suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Michika, Adamawa.
Beyidi told newsmen in Yola that the
suspects were arrested on Saturday by men of the battalion and JTF from Maiduguri
with the assistance of the `civilian JTF’
He said six of the suspects were
taken to Maiduguri, while two of the remaining five brought to Mubi died while
trying to resist arrest.
The commanding officer explained
that the suspects died from injuries sustained when they were manhandled by the
civilian JTF for allegedly resisting arrest.
“Two of the remaining three also
died today (Sunday) from injuries inflicted on them by the civilian JTF. “We now have one still alive and is being
interrogated,’’ Beyidi said. (NAN)
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