Ignore fake news on secret trial, execution of soldiers- Nigerian Army

Less than 24 hours after bandits launched an attack on a military camp in Zagzaga community in Munya local government area of Niger state, the Nigerian Army has shut down its camp and evacuated its soldiers from the community.

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The army, supported by the youths in the community, has equally begun a search for one missing soldier after the attack.

On Wednesday morning, about 60 bandits invaded a military camp in the said community and engaged soldiers in a gun battle, even as some of the bandits were said to have been seriously injured.

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None of the soldiers was injured in the attack.

A source close to the community said that few hours after the soldiers moved out of the community in what the secretary to the state government, alhaji ibrahim matene, said was a “tactical withdrawal”, the bandits had launched coordinated attacks on some communities in the area.

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