The invading soldiers were asking women and aged people for the location of the camp of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the community.
Soldiers of the Nigerian Army have reportedly sacked Obeagu community in the Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State, burning some houses.
Sources told SaharaReporters that the soldiers invaded the community with 10 Hilux and armoured truck vehicles with over 100 soldiers in the early hours of Monday, shooting sporadically and touching some houses.
It was not clear why the military invaded the community.
Meanwhile, one of the sources told SaharaReporters that the invading soldiers were asking women and aged people for the location of the camp of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the community.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that on October 13, armed men suspected to be herdsmen invaded the community and killed one person. They also wounded two people and kidnapped three others, forcing the community to pay millions of naira as ransom to secure their release.
Similarly, suspected armed herdsmen invaded the community on March 29, 2021, and killed 21 people. During the invasion, neither the soldiers nor police officers intervened in the attack that lasted nearly 12 hours.
It was gathered that the security agencies had yet to arrest any of the assailants even though the mobile phone of one of the assailants' was recovered during the invasion was handed over to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, when he visited the community a week after the deadly attack.