Reports emerging has revealed that the town of Potiskum, in Yobe, has been in a state of unrest since Wednesday when 18 men who were arrested by soldiers were later found dead with bullet wounds hours later.
It was reported by witnesses and community leaders that military troops broke
into people’s homes and took away the men from the Mosco Line area of Potiskum, Yobe State, early morning on Wednesday.
Witnesses recounted their body while making it knownm that the victims, mostly young men numbering 18, were later deposited by the military in the morgue of the Potiskum General Hospital.
“The corpses were brought in by soldiers and they all have bullet wounds,” a hospital staff said.
Another witness, who is a resident had this to say about what he experienced:
“A soldier broke into our house and arrested my brother.
“They told me not to worry because they were picking him for an investigation.”
“But a family friend who works at the general hospital broke the sad news early morning that his dead body and those of 17 others were brought to morgue by soldiers.”
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