Residents of Iree town in Boripe Local Government Area of Osun State have been thrown into panic over fears of a reprisal attack due to an attack on Nigerian Army personnel in the town.
Blueprint gathered that a soldier was assaulted and left wounded on Tuesday by some hoodlums at the Poly Junction area of Iree.
The identity of the soldier could not be ascertained at the time of this report.
The cause of the disagreement that led to the attack on the soldier, who was dressed in Nigerian Army camouflage, is also not yet known.
Eyewitness accounts disclosed that some soldiers later arrived at the scene and took the wounded soldier away.
However, the incident has left the heart of many people in the town in their mouth over a possible reprisal attacks by soldiers.
The spokesperson of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, Osun Command, Kehinde Adeleke, confirmed the incident.
According to him “Some miscreants in Iree attacked some personnel of the Nigerian Army who were on a mission to Osun State Polytechnic, Iree and wounded some of them. What led to the attack not known yet.”