BREAKING: Police officer, six suspected IPOB members killed in fresh attack on police facility

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This is the latest in the string of attacks on police facilities in South-east Nigeria.

A police officer was, on Sunday, killed when suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous people of Biafra attacked 3-3 Police Divisional Headquarters in Nkwelle-Ezunaka, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State, south-east Nigeria.The police spokesperson in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, said six of the IPOB members were killed by police operatives who repelled the attack.

Mr Ikenga, a deputy superintendent of police, said the IPOB members, alongside its militant wing, Eastern Security Network, in their numbers, invaded the police facility in two SUV vehicles and a Toyota Sienna.

“During the gun duel, unfortunately, one police operative attached to the station was fatally wounded and an office in the facility was partially affected by the petrol bomb the insurgents threw inside the station,” he said.Mr Ikenga said some of the hoodlums escaped with gunshot injuries during the shoot-out. He said the situation was under control and being monitored.

The attack comes barely 24 hours after gunmen bombed Ogidi Police Divisional Headquarters in the Idemili North Local Government Area of the state.the same police facility in the council area. One of the gunmen was killed in that attack, according to the police.in Ukpor, a community in the Nnewi South Local Government Area of the state. But the police said they foiled the attack.

 

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The fuck is this headline

Fake news

I heard Nigeria police have not being pain up to six month salary? Can anyone very this?

Ipob member , how did you know they are IPOB ?

How did you know they were IPOB members?

Una don start again….. ipob this And that,the one wey cast una never report am o!

Why are you not reporting about the corruption going on in Anambra.

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