{"id":114208,"date":"2024-09-03T18:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=114208"},"modified":"2024-09-03T18:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:04:24","slug":"breaking-gunmen-bomb-anambra-police-headquarters-kill-corporal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/breaking-gunmen-bomb-anambra-police-headquarters-kill-corporal\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Gunmen bomb Anambra Police Headquarters, kill corporal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suspected secessionist gunmen in early hours of Tuesday attacked and bombed the Oba Police Divisional Headquarters in Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra state.<\/p>\n

Ikenga Tochukwu, Spokesman of the State Police Command confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He said a police corporal was killed in the incident, while others sustained varying degrees of injury.<\/p>\n

According to him, the hoodlums also attacked the Oba Civic Centre.<\/p>\n

The reason for the attacks is currently unknown, but it coincides with a declaration by secessionist leader Simon Ekpa, who called for a month-long hostility against government establishments in the South-East, starting from Aug. 28.<\/p>\n

Ikenga said, \u201cA joint security force comprising the Army, Navy, Civil Defence, and other agencies is currently conducting a joint operation in Oba and its environs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the suspected armed secessionist group shot sporadically and threw petrol bombs, causing fires in some offices and the civic centre.<\/p>\n

The statement read in part, \u201dThe Police-led Joint Security Force comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil defence and other security agencies are currently in a joint on-slaught operation within Oba and its environments.<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing, an attack in the early hours of today 3\/9\/2024 on Oba Police Divisional Headquarters and Oba Civic Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspected armed secessionist group started shooting sporadically in an attempt to gain entrance to the Police Station and threw petrol bombs at the security facility which made some of the offices catch up with fire including the Oba Civic Centre.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, a police corporal who was fatally wounded paid the supreme price, while the fire was put off with the help of other Police officers on duty and the Joint Security responding team.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commissioner of Police CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, while condemning the act, described the invasion of Security facilities and hostility towards security agents as an attack on the soul of a Nation and vows to bring those behind the unholy act to book.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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