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PORT HARCOURT – TWO soldiers were reportedly killed Saturday night by yet unknown assailants in Abonemma, headquarters of Akuku-Toru local government area of Rivers State, where a Lieutenant and several civilians were earlier killed in 23 February Presidential Election Day violence.
Spokesperson for the 6 Division Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt, Col Aminu Ilyasu and his counterpart at the Rivers State Police Command, Nnamdi Omoni were yet to give a word on the development, but community sources suspected that the soldiers’ killers came from outside to do the killing and disappeared immediately.
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