EBONYI: Gunmen shoot three policemen dead in Izzi LG

AT least three policemen were said to have killed by gun-wielding men in the state last night.

The officers were reportedly attacked at 7pm at Onuebonyi/Nwezenyi Junction, in the Izzi Local Government Area of the state, while on duty, on Wednesday.

According to an eyewitness, the assailants wore all black and used two Sienna buses and other conveyances as getaway vehicles after perpetrating the heinous act.

Confirming the incident today, the Police Public Relations in the state, DSP Loveth Odah said some of the assailants equally sustained injuries, from gunshots from the policewomen

Odah said, “According to information, some of the attackers disguised themselves and were moving in convoy as if they were doing a burial rally and mourning with three motorcycles, three tricycles, with two Sienna buses following them.

“While the policemen were checking them, they opened fire and killed two of the police officers that were closer to them at the checkpoint, though the other ones, which we call Men At Sentry shot at them and reasonably, we suspect that some of them (assailants), were also wounded.

“One of the policemen was shot in a close range and he was among those coming to help their colleagues over what was happening and he did not know that the tricycles that passed them were among the attackers. So, the attackers went up there and killed the police officer in the police van and set the police vehicle ablaze. That made them three police officers we lost yesterday (Wednesday).”