According to a report by Punch Metro, some gunmen on Sunday attacked the Ikirike Police Station in Enugu State.
Source told our correspondent that the hoodlums, numbering about seven, swooped on the policemen on duty, adding that about five policemen were seriously wounded.
A police source also told Punch Metro that the gunmen took away weapons from the station’s armoury.
He said what saved the day was the timely reinforcement from the Mobile 3 Police Unit and the Police Detective College located on the Agbani Road.
When contacted on the telephone, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, confirmed the attack.
He told Punch Metro that the hoodlums came to the station pretending as if they wanted to lodge a complaint and launched the attack.
On whether there was fatality, Amaraizu said no police personnel was killed.
He stated,
‘The quick intervention of reinforcement teams as despatched by the Commissioner of Police did not give the hoodlums the opportunity to have the upper hand.”
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