One killed, two injured as police, gunmen clash in Imo

By Chidi Nkwopara

An unidentified gunman was neutralized yesterday, astatine Umulolo, Okigwe section assembly country of Imo State, by policemen, who were connected their mode from Abuja to Port Harcourt.
Two policemen reportedly sustained varying degrees of wounded successful the fierce encounter, portion vehicular question connected the engaged road was stalled for hours.
Confirming the incidental successful a telephone interrogation yesterday, the Imo State Police Command’s representation maker, Mr. Henry Okoye, said that arms and ammunition were recovered from the gunman.
His words: “A squad of constabulary Special Intervention Squad, who were traveling from Abuja to Port Harcourt, unsuspectingly, ran into an ambush laid by a pack of terrorists, suspected to beryllium members of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and Eastern Security Network, ESN,  at Umulolo, Okigwe.
“The policemen promptly manoeuvred into strategical positions and engaged the terrorists successful a fierce weapon battle.
“One of the suspected terrorists was neutralized, portion others fled into the adjacent bushes with varying degrees of injuries.
“An AK-47 firearm with breach fig 533064, 3 magazines and 28 rounds of unrecorded ammunition and charms were recovered from the dormant terrorist.
“The Command’s applicable squad has been afloat mobilized to the country of the crime. They are presently astatine Umulolo, carrying retired an aggravated combing of the area, wherever we anticipation to apprehension oregon retrieve bodies of the fleeing members of the violent gang.
“Two of our unit sustained gunshot injuries, and they person been taken to the infirmary for aesculapian attention. No constabulary limb was mislaid successful the encounter.
“No roadworthy idiosyncratic was harmed during the encounter, which happened astatine astir 09.00hrs contiguous (yesterday).
“The recovered corpse of the hoodlum has been deposited successful the infirmary morgue and the Commissioner of Police, CP., Aboki Danjuma, has vowed to spell aft the fleeing hoodlums, with a presumption to arresting and making them look the afloat value of the law.”

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