• Troops of 6 Brigade and Sector 3, Operation Whirl Stroke, arrested two suspects during a raid on criminal hideouts in Gayama village, Taraba State.
• The suspects, Haruna Samari and Dantala Mamman, were found in possession of various illegal firearms and ammunition.
• Recovered items include a submachine gun, fabricated rifles, multiple barrel guns, live cartridges, a Beofeng radio, and a helmet.

Troops of the 6 Brigade, Nigerian Army, in collaboration with Sector 3 of Operation Whirl Stroke, have apprehended two suspects and recovered a large cache of illegal arms during a coordinated operation in Donga Local Government Area of Taraba State.

The operation, carried out in Gayama village, followed credible intelligence reports pointing to the location of suspected criminal hideouts in the area.

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According to military sources, the suspects—identified as Haruna Samari and Dantala Mamman—were arrested with a stockpile of weapons and other suspicious items in their possession.

Items recovered during the raid included one submachine gun, a submachine gun magazine loaded with ten rounds of 9mm ammunition, an empty 7.62mm special ammunition case, two locally fabricated rifles, three single-barrel guns, three Dane guns, five live cartridges, four used cartridge cases, a Beofeng radio, and a helmet.

The army said the successful raid is part of its intensified efforts to rid the region of armed criminal elements and ensure the safety of communities across Taraba State.

Further investigations are ongoing to identify possible collaborators and trace the origins of the weapons cache.

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