Gunmen Kill Police Inspector, Civilian In Imo,
Tragedy struck in Imo State on following the killing of a Police Inspector and a complaint who were trailing a suspect at Mbaitolu on Thursday.
Tragedy struck in Imo State on following the killing of a Police Inspector and a complaint who were trailing a suspect at Mbaitolu on Thursday.
It was said that three policemen from the Nwaorie Ubi Police Station in Mbaitolu, a suburb of Owerri town were trailing a suspect under investigation when they were waylaid by some gunmen at a fuel station, killing Inspector Okechukwu Eczema, from Onicha Enugu Ezike, in Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State, on the spot.
Police sources said that the suspect whose name was being shielded for security reasons was said to have escaped police arrest on several occasions and failed to report after several invitations before this ugly development.
The detectives were traveling in a tricycle otherwise called keke which tank was being refilled before three bike riders each carrying a gun-bearing passenger entered the filling station and opened fire on them killing both the police inspector and the complainant of the case under investigation.
The other two policemen were however, said to have escaped the attack with bullet injuries.
Also, on Saturday night, some policemen guarding the residence of a parliamentarian were attacked by unknown gunmen even as a female passer-by who was returning home from her workplace was hit by stray bullets.
Owerri, the state capital, had been very tense of late following several threats of attack from the unknown gunmen in recent times.
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