6 police officers killed as Boko Haram attack Dapchi

According to reports making the rounds, the deadly Boko
Haram sect attacked insurgents in Dapchi, a village in Yobe State on Wednesday
March 4 leaving 6 police officers dead and two others.

 Mohammed Goje, the Executive Secretary of Yobe State
Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) told newsmen on Thursday March 5 that the
security agents killed in the attack were Mobile police officers while the
identities of two others are yet to be ascertained. 

Goje who travelled in a small convoy with Goni Bukar,
the commissioner for sports and youth development, said he is in Dapchi with
his team to evacuate the corpses of those killed in the attack. 

He said; 

“We have just returned from Dapchi as you can see. We
have evacuated eight dead bodies. Six of them could be easily identified as
police personnel because they are wearing police uniform. Most of them are
MOPOL.

“The other two bodies I can’t say their identity
because either, the soldiers nor vigilante or police could identify them as
their members.

“We have to evaucate the bodies from the scene because we
cannot allow the dead bodies to rot away because these people that are killed
have families. 

“We have therefore given instruction at the mortuary that
their corpse should be properly taken care of for identification. They deserve
befitting burials from their families.”

He further revealed that the corpses were deposited at the
General Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital mortuary. 

The Yobe SEMA boss who told newsmen that the
insurgents made away with one military vehicle and burnt one of the cars
belonging to Mr Bukar, revealed that the military base and a section of
the police station in the village were also burnt in the attack.

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Author: Gift Adene