Heavily armed unidentified gunmen have, Sunday morning, attacked a police station at Inyi in Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State, killing two policemen in the process.
Accoring to eyewitnesss, the gunmen who stormed the police station in Oji River also set the station on fire while chanting “no election and police in Biafra land.”
One of the two people killed was said to be a police official on duty when the hoodlums attacked the station.
A viral video of the incident seen on Sunday afternoon showed a building being used as a police station on fire and the bodies of two men lying by the fence.
Voices in the background of the video identified one of the bodies as that of a policeman but it was not clear whether the second person was a policeman or not.
In a related development, the gunmen also reportedly killed the Councillor representing Unadu Town in Igbo Eze South Local Government, Enugu State, simply identified as Hon. Lucky.
According to reports, the Councillor was earlier killed in his village on Saturday. Read more.
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