Gunmen Kill Police Officer, Two Others In Anambra State

• …a tricycle rider and a resident of the area also lost their lives in the attack.

Gunmen have killed a police officer and two civilians in an attack at the Ukaegbu Junction by Ezeiweka Road, Awada Obosi Layout in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state. 

The incident, which happened on Sunday, also saw the attackers setting fire on the police patrol van before leaving the area.

Residents said the incident took place around 8:30 am when officers from the Awada Divisional Police Station were conducting stop-and-search in the area considered as a flash point.

During the attack, the officer, a tricycle rider and a resident of the area lost their lives.

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The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga in a press release also confirmed the attack.

“The attackers drove in a Sienna vehicle… and started shooting at the patrol vehicle along Ukegbu Junction,” he said.

“Unfortunately, during the exchange of gunfire, one police inspector paid the supreme price.”

Tochukwu said that “in a bid to escape the police responding team, the hoodlums set the patrol vehicle ablaze.”

Other officers were wounded in the attack, he said, explaining that patrol and surveillance within the area and Onitsha have been intensified with a view to fish out and arrest the perpetrators.

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