BREAKING: Causalities As Gunmen Bomb Police Headquarters
The Nigerian police-led Joint Security Force is currently in a joint onslaught operation within the Oba area in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State and its environs to fish out some gunmen.
The manhunt operation followed an attack on Oba Police Divisional Headquarters and Oba Civic Center in the early hours of Tuesday by gunmen identified by the Anambra State Police Command as an armed secessionist group.
The Police Public Relations Officer in Anambra State, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident to SaharaReporters in Awka said that the gunmen invaded the police division headquarters and the civic centre, threw petrol bombs at the police facility and shot sporadically, killing one police corporal.
The police spokesperson said “The suspected armed secessionist group started shooting sporadically in an attempt to gain entrance to the Police Station and threw petrol bombs at the security facility which made some of the offices catch up with fire including the Oba Civic Center.
“Unfortunately, a police corporal who was fatally wounded paid the supreme price, while the fire was put off with the help of other police officers on duty and the Joint Security responding team.”
Ikenga said “The Commissioner of Police CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, while condemning the act, described the invasion of Security facilities and hostility towards security agents as an attack on the soul of a Nation and vowed to bring those behind the unholy act to book.”
