Eight security agents comprising soldiers, policemen and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have been killed by gunmen in Imo State.
The security personnel were killed on Tuesday morning in Umualumaku community, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state.
Members of the joint security taskforce were in two security trucks and ran into an ambush.
They were set ablaze by their attackers with none of them surviving as they were burnt inside their operational vehicles.
An anonymous security operative revealed that reinforcement teams had been sent to the scene of the crime with the intent to arrest the suspects and rescue the corpses of the slain security operative.
A local who refused to give his name said he saw the security agents a few minutes before they were set ablaze.
The spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said the security team was attacked but could not give the full details of the horrible incident.
