No fewer than two police officers have been killed following an attack on the Apumiri Ubakala Police Station in Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State.
It was gathered that the gunmen stormed the police facility in the early hours of Monday, razed down the station and burnt some vehicles.
Efforts to reach the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Geoffrey Ogbonna, proved abortive as his phone number was not reachable.
The Commissioner of Police, Janet Agbede is yet to address journalists on the incident.
Channels Television learned that the slain officers were two males and their bodies have been deposited in the morgue.