Man escapes death as gunmen kill mother, two sisters in Anambra

By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA — Tragedy struck successful Anambra State arsenic a man, Ifeanyi Emmanuel Nwafor, narrowly escaped decease erstwhile gunmen opened occurrence connected his family, sidesplitting his parent and 2 sisters.

The yet-to-be-identified assailants — suspected to beryllium either hired assassins, kidnappers, oregon insurgents — ambushed the conveyance conveying Nwafor, his parent Mrs. Ngozi Nwafor, and his sisters Miss Martha Ogochukwu and Miss Uchenna Mary Nwafor, and changeable repeatedly astatine them.

The incident, which occurred astatine Oba successful Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State connected Thursday, August 1, 2024, near residents successful daze and mourning.

Eyewitnesses said the gunshots attracted passersby and sympathizers, who rushed to the country and took the victims to Chibuenyim Hospital and Maternity, Oba, wherever aesculapian unit confirmed Ngozi, Martha, and Mary Nwafor dormant connected arrival.

The lone survivor, Ifeanyi Emmanuel, reportedly sustained injuries and remains successful captious condition. The calamity leaves him arsenic the sole surviving subordinate of his contiguous family, having mislaid his begetter years earlier.

Medical experts astatine the infirmary issued 3 abstracted decease certificates confirming the deaths of the victims, each natives of Ebiaji assemblage successful Ezza North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, but residents of Anambra.

According to the infirmary records, the victims were brought successful astir 11 p.m. connected the fateful nighttime and were certified dormant owed to aggregate gunshot wounds.

Meanwhile, the Anambra State Commissioner of Police, Ikioye Orutugu, had precocious told journalists successful Awka that the bid had “nipped successful the bud” cases of kidnapping, murder, assassination, and insurgency since his presumption of bureau precocious past year.

However, Thursday’s incidental has sparked renewed concerns astir the state’s information situation.

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