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Irabor said the attackers were arrested during joint operations
involving the armed forces, the Department of Security Services
and police, privately owned Channels TV reported.
It was not immediately clear how many suspects had been taken
into custody or where and when the arrests were made.
Nigerian authorities have said they suspect insurgent group
Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) carried out the
massacre of members of a congregation inside the St Francis
Catholic Church in the southwestern state of Ondo on June 5.
(Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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