Soldiers attached to the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu State, engaged in a fierce gun battle with the neighbourhood SEE group in Eke community, Udi Local Government Area of the state.
It was gathered a man and his wife were allegedly shot dead while one of the members, identified as Chinedu Okolo had his penis completely shattered.
Other members of the local security network who survived the attack are reportedly in critical condition in an undisclosed hospital.
The Assistant Chief Security Officer of Eke Security Neighbourhood Vigilante SEE, Emeka Anigbo, who also sustained several gunshot injuries, in an interview with journalists, said the incident happened on Thursday night when they were at the 9th Mile Corner.
Anigbo said they had gone to felicitate with their colleagues who were being inaugurated as neighbourhood SEE members when they received a distress call that armed robbers blocked the major road leading to the popular Catholic Church Prayer Center (Ugwudinso) and Eke, from Ama breweries.
According to him, on receiving the call, they abandoned the food and drinks they were about to eat and swiftly drove out to confront the criminal elements, however, they could not get to the scene with their vehicles due to the heavy gridlock on the road.
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He said, “We decided to park our vehicle along the road and started moving towards the place; while approaching the scene, we figured three armed soldiers who ordered us in a loud voice to stop.
“We obeyed the soldiers and stopped, telling them that we were neighbourhood SEE members. At that point, they then asked us to keep coming.