A police corporal was killed in the attack
Matthew Onocheta
ANAMBRA – Gunmen on Tuesday, attacked Oba Police Divisional Headquarters and Oba Civic Center in the Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State, South-East Nigeria, police said.
The gunmen invaded the police division headquarters and the civic centre, threw petrol bombs at the police facility and shot sporadically, killing one police corporal, said SP Tochukwu Ikenga, spokesman for the Anambra State Police Command.
“The 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 Center,” Ikenga said.
“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 police spokesman added: “The 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 vowed to bring those behind the unholy act to book.”