“Regrettably, two police operatives sustained gunshot injuries and are presently receiving treatment.”
Gunmen also invaded a divisional police station in Uzuakoli in Abia state and released two inmates there before setting it ablaze. “The gunmen attacked the station with dynamite and rocket launchers and freed two detainees,” state police spokesman Geoffrey Ogbonna told AFP.Southeast Nigeria has seen a surge in attacks targeting security forces that officials blame on the Indigenous People of Biafra , a separatist group seeking independence for the indigenous Igbo people.Two weeks ago, a police station and prison were attacked in Owerri, the capital of Imo state, and more than 1,800 inmates freed.
IPOB denied accusations it carried out the Owerri attack, but security forces have launched an operation in the volatile region to “flush out” militants. Separatist calls for a state of Biafra in the south are a sensitive subject in Nigeria after a unilateral declaration of independence in 1967 sparked a brutal 30-month civil war.
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