One police officer and an attacker were killed as the police repelled an attack on its Divisional Headquarters in Ebonyi State.
The spokesman of the command, DSP Odah Obianuju confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday.
She explained that the hoodlums’ number about 20 came in Mitsubishi L300 Bus while some came on foot through the back fence and attacked Ugbuodo Divisional Headquarters in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
They immediately opened fire, shooting sporadically at the Policemen on duty but were swiftly challenged and repelled back, in the gun battle that killed one of them.
A side of the attacked building
Again, unknown gunmen numbering over twenty at the weekend attacked the popular Ugbuodo police divisional headquarters in Ebonyi Local Government Area and
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Gunmen on Sunday, 23 May, attacked Ugbuodo police divisional headquarters in Ebonyi Local Government Area, killing one of the officers.
However, the unknown armed men were repelled by the police officers on duty, resulting to the killing of one of them and one AK 47 recovered from him.
According to The Nation, the Police public relations officer of the command, Loveth Odah, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abakaliki.
“At 1200hrs of Sunday, hoodlums, numbering about 20 in a Mitsubishi L300 Bus, and some others on foot, came in through the back fence and attacked one of our divisions at Ugbuodo Divisional Headquarters in Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state.
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Loveth Odah, the police spokesman, said the incident occurred at Ugbuodo divisional headquarters in Ebonyi LGA of the state.
On May 6, some gunmen attacked Obiozara police station in Ohaozara LGA of the state.
Four days before, there was a similar
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According to NAN, Odah said about 20 gunmen attacked the station around midnight on Sunday and shot at the policemen on duty.
She said the policemen, however, repelled the attack and killed one of the attackers in the process.
“At 1200hrs of Sunday, hoodlums, numbering about 20 in a Mitsubishi L300 Bus, and some others on foot, came in through the back fence and attacked one of our divisions at Ugbuodo Divisional Headquarters in Ebonyi Local Government Area of the state,” she said.