Gunmen attack police station in Imo
Gunmen early yesterday attacked the Obowo Police Division with explosives.
They bombed the police transit camp in the area.
A source said the attack lasted about three hours.
Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operation, Mama Giwa, who visited the scene at about 7:am, commended the officers and men for their gallantry and urged them not to relent in their effort to make Imo safer.
The latest attack brings to four the number of police divisions attacked in March, with no fewer than seven officers killed.
Spokesman of the Command, Michael Abattam, a chief superintendent of police (CSP), alleged that the latest bombing was carried out by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB )/Eastern Security Network (ESN).
“They came in their numbers from the rear of the division, which is an ungoverned forest, threw petrol bombs and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) that fell on the transit camp where policemen stay temporarily before getting accommodation and hit a vehicle while shooting sporadically.
“Engaging the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel, we prevented them from gaining entrance to the station and in the process forced the hoodlums to retreat and they escaped back into the forest with various degrees of bullet wounds. “
“The police operatives gave them a hot chase and while combing the bush the following items were recovered: three undetonated explosives, four expended AK 47 rifles, ammunition, five live cartridges, 33 expended cartridges, two masks, one pump action gun and a motor saw machine.”
