Two Officers Killed As Gunmen Attack Another Abia Police
Station
No fewer than two police officers
have been killed following an attack on the Apumiri Ubakala Police Station in
Umuahia South Local Government Area of Abia State.
It was gathered that the gunmen
stormed the police facility in the early hours of Monday, razed down the
station and burnt some vehicles.
Efforts to reach the Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Geoffrey Ogbonna, proved abortive as his phone
number was not reachable.
The Commissioner of Police, Janet
Agbede is yet to address journalists on the incident.
It was learned that the slain
officers were two males and their bodies have been deposited in the morgue.
Security formations in the
South-East have been targeted by gunmen of recent, with Abia State recording no
fewer than three attacks on police formations in less than three weeks.
Just five days ago, two policemen
were injured when armed men stormed a police formation in the Bende Local
Government Area of the state.
A group of hoodlums, in a large
number, were said to have attacked the police station in the night and set it
on fire.
While the two policemen injured
during the attack have been taken to a hospital for medical attention, the
police command vowed not to rest on its oars to fish out the perpetrators.
The Commissioner of Information
in Abia, John Okiyi, confirmed the attack on the police station to Channels
Television on Thursday.
He was of the opinion that Abia
has remained one of the safest states, and called on those behind attacks on
government facilities in the state to have a rethink.
Also on May 9, hoodlums attacked
a police facility located at the Trademore Estate in Umuahia, the state
capital.
While no life was lost in the
incident, one of the police personnel on duty sustained an injury and has been
taken to a hospital for treatment.
