GUNMEN KILL FIVE POLICEMEN, COUPLE IN IMO

REPORTER: CHINAZO ILECHUKWU

Gunmen have shot dead five policemen attached to the Imo State Police Command at Okpalla Junction, Ngor Okpalla Local Government Area of the state.

The security personnel were said to had met their untimely death around 8am on Friday after alighting from a patrol vehicle to have breakfast at a restaurant near the junction.

Also killed during the attack were a couple who operated a shop near the scene of the incident.

Radio Nigeria gathered that the couple, who hailed from Amankwo Community in same Ngor Okpalla, were gunned down when the hoodlums traced two fleeing policemen to their shop and fired at all of them at a close range.

An indigene of the community, who would not want his name mentioned, said the gunmen abandoned the corpses at the scene and carted away five riffles belonging to the policemen.

The Spokesperson for the Imo State Police Command, Mr. Henry Okoye, said tactical team of the command had been deployed to apprehend the hoodlums.

He said normalcy had been restored and urged residents to go about their normal businesses.

Recall that five men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps were shot dead by gunmen who ambushed them at Ngor Okpalla on March 27, 2023.

EDITED BY CHUKWUBUIKE MADU