2 Dead As IPOB Militants Bomb Police Headquarters In Imo
Gunmen suspected to be members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/Eastern Security Network attacked the Obowo Divisional Police headquarters in Imo on Monday. DAILY NIGERIAN reports.
CSP Michael Abattam, Police spokesman in Imo, said in Owerri that the assailants invaded the station from an ungoverned forest at the rear. Information Guide Nigeria
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“Police operatives and some of the Command’s Technical Teams engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel preventing them from gaining entrance to the station”.
“In the process, they forced the hoodlums into retreating into the forest with various degrees of bullet wounds”. jamb results
“The police operatives gave them a hot chase and while combing the bush, three undetonated explosives, four expended AK47 bullets, and five live cartridges were recovered.
“Also recovered were 33 expended cartridges, two masks, one pump action gun and a motorised sewing machine,’’ Mr Abattam stated.
“The attack started around 2 a.m. and lasted for about three hours. We heard the sounds of various firearms and suspected dynamite during the attack.
“We do not know whether the assailants took away police weapons as they usually did,” he said.
