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Nigeria: Twenty Three Policemen Killed in Nasarawa Ambush
The incident happened as a detachment of riot police and SSS men were headed to the shrine of Ombatse, a deity of the Eggon people, at Alakyo, 10 kilometres from the Nasarawa State capital, police commissioner Abayomi Akeremale said.
The security forces were on their way to raid the place and arrest the chief priest following reports that they were torturing and forcing people in churches and mosques to swear to an oath of allegiance to the Ombatse deity, Akeremale told journalists in Lafia.
Followers of the deity laid an ambush and opened fire on the police vehicles transporting 60 personnel, killing 23 of them. Only 19 of the security personnel returned to base, some of them with critical injuries. The remaining unaccounted policemen were thought to have been abducted by the Ombatse people.
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"We decided at the state security council meeting, because of the frequent attacks on churches and mosques by this particular group, who are forcing people to swear an oath at the shrine, that we carry out an operation and arrest the perpetrators for prosecution lest it turns into a religious crisis," he said. "The people, some call them Ombatse, but they call themselves cultural people, ambushed our men and opened fire," he added.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305090455.html?viewall=1
The security forces were on their way to raid the place and arrest the chief priest following reports that they were torturing and forcing people in churches and mosques to swear to an oath of allegiance to the Ombatse deity, Akeremale told journalists in Lafia.
Followers of the deity laid an ambush and opened fire on the police vehicles transporting 60 personnel, killing 23 of them. Only 19 of the security personnel returned to base, some of them with critical injuries. The remaining unaccounted policemen were thought to have been abducted by the Ombatse people.
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"We decided at the state security council meeting, because of the frequent attacks on churches and mosques by this particular group, who are forcing people to swear an oath at the shrine, that we carry out an operation and arrest the perpetrators for prosecution lest it turns into a religious crisis," he said. "The people, some call them Ombatse, but they call themselves cultural people, ambushed our men and opened fire," he added.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305090455.html?viewall=1
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