Gunmen suspected to be secessionist, Tuesday, bombed Oba Divisional Police Headquarters, Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area (LGA), Anambra state, killing a corporal.
Blueprint gathered that the incident which occurred early Tuesday morning also left several officers and civilians physically injured, even as Oba Civic Centre and some offices within the vicinity were raised by fire.
The Anambra State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident in a statement, however, revealed that a joint security force comprising the army, navy, civil defence, and other agencies is currently conducting operation over it.
According to him, “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 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 vows to bring those behind the unholy act to book.”