Crime
Police neutralizes 4 IPOB members armed with charms, IEDs
Following the fire-bombing of the country home of Ohaneze president on Saturday, bandits suspected to be IPOB militia attacked a police station at Omuma, Imo, early on Sunday.
According to CSP Mike Abattam, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Imo, the gunmen, came in a large number armed with improvised weapons to Omuma, the hometown of Gov Hope Uzodinma.
“On 20th March, 2022 at about 0300 hours, Hoodlums suspected to members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra/ Eastern Security Network terrorist group came in large numbers with various calibres of Improvised Explosive Devices ( IED) to Omuma police station shooting sporadically but, were swiftly repelled by the police.”
“The Police Operatives engaged the hoodlums in fierce gun duel and in the process four of the bandits were neutralised on the spot while other escaped into the bush having suffered a huge defeat, with a number of them sustaining various degrees of bullet wounds.”
He said charms and five undetonated different capacities of Improvised Explosives Devices were recovered from the neutralised bandits.
The police are currently combing the bush to apprehend the fleeing gunmen.
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