{"id":93314,"date":"2022-03-28T15:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=93314"},"modified":"2022-03-28T15:38:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T14:38:33","slug":"gunmen-attack-another-police-facility-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/gunmen-attack-another-police-facility-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen attack another police facility in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The police spokesperson in Imo, Michael Abattam, stated in Owerri that the assailants approached the station from an ungoverned forest at the rear.He added that they threw petrol bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices that fell on the transit camp behind the station and on a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice operatives and some of the Command\u2019s Technical Teams engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel preventing them from gaining entrance to the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the process, they forced the hoodlums into retreating into the forest with various degrees of bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso recovered were 33 expended cartridges, two masks, one pump action gun and a motorised sawing machine,\u2019\u2019 Mr Abattam stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added that apart from the minimal damage to the transit camp and the vehicle, no life was lost.<\/p>\n<p>He stated also that a police operative who sustained a minor gunshot injury had been treated.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman added that Acting Commissioner of Police, Maman Giwa, who visited the scene, commended the officers and men for repelling the attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mr Giwa appealed to Imo residents to continue to give the police timely and credible information about criminals and their activities and to report any person seen treating bullet wounds within the community to the nearest police station.Meanwhile, a source in the community, who requested anonymity, said two persons were feared killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not know whether the assailants took away police weapons as they usually did,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Monday\u2019s attack brought the number of police divisional headquarters attacked in Imo in March to four.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, gunmen attacked Orsu, Oru East and Umuguma police divisional headquarters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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