A combined team of
soldiers, policemen and State Security Service officials have recovered
bombs and guns during house-to-house searches in Mubi, Adamawa State,
the News Agency of Nigeria reports.
Brigade Commander, 23rd Amoured Brigade, Yola, Brig.-Gen. John Nwaoga, confirmed this in Mubi on Monday.
This came as suspected
kidnappers abducted two children of a businessman, Osayawe Iyamu, in
Benin and the kidnap of the son-in-law of Bauchi State Governor Isa
Yuguda.
Nwaoga said the searches were carried out following the killings and attacks on communication masts in Mubi.
He said the efforts yielded results with arms and ammunition, including explosives, recovered.
He said that one suspect, who engaged the security agents in a shootout, was killed.
The army chief, who did not give the number of persons arrested, said those arrested would be screened.
The state government has since imposed 24-hour curfew in Mubi for the past two days.
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