after least five soldiers were killed when bandits raided Kemanji village in Kwara's Kaiama council region after midnight.

According to local sources who spoke to the Peoples Gazette on Monday, the attack started at three in the morning and continued for almost two hours.

“Bandits invaded Kemanji this morning around 3:00 a.m. Our security agents, the army and local vigilantes engaged them in an intense gun battle that lasted until 5:00 a.m.m.,” a source told The Gazette.

“They killed a few of our soldiers. We still can’t say how extremely disastrous the attack was.”

Another source added, “We just heard gunshots around 3:00 a.m. We locked our door and stayed inside, so the attack lasted till 5am this morning. From the gunshot, we could tell that there was an attack, but we didn’t fully know the intensity of the attack.

“When dawn broke, we discovered that over five soldiers were killed and several others were injured in the attack. The bandits left with the army men’s vehicles and motorcycles.”

A request for comment was not immediately answered by Onyechi Anele, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Army.

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