Just in: Gunmen launch deadly attack on Anambra police station, killing cop

Gunmen attacked a police station at Oba in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State on Tuesday morning, killing one corporal and injuring several other policemen in a bomb assault.

The secessionist group responsible for terrorizing the Southeast region also targeted the Oba Civic Centre.

As previously reported by Persecondnews, one of the leaders of the secessionist group had issued a voice note on social media last week, urging a one-month sit-at-home protest across the Southeast region.

Anambra Police spokesman, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the incident in a statement on Tuesday in Awka.

Ikenga said: “Following an attack in the early hours of today, 3/9/2024, on Oba Police Divisional Headquarters and Oba Civic Centre.

“The suspected armed successionist 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 Center.

“Unfortunately, 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.

“The Commissioner of Police, 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.”