It was another evil haul of mystery corpses as no fewer than 60 bodies on Thursday night arrived the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu, the Yobe state capital. Though the police and the JTF in the state were curiously silent about where the bodies were brought from and where they died, a dependable security source revealed they were victims of a bloody gun battle between a dreaded Islamist sect and JTF troops during a raid.
The source said the JTF had carried out "a discreet operation around Gujba Local Government Area on Thursday evening to smoke out suspected terror sect men" from their hideout but the operation snowballed into a fierce battle between the security agents and the militants. "Sixty four terror suspects died in the gun duel," the top security personnel who did not want his name in print, disclosed. The reaction of the authorities of the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu could not be obtained as at press time.
