Bloody Sunday:
Awka Boils On Fire As Gunmen Attack Police Division, INEC Office
There’s an uneasy calm in Awka, the capital of Anambra State as gunmen invaded B Division police station and the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on Sunday night.
Many police officers are feared dead from the attack which witnesses said lasted for almost 2 hours with sporadic shootings. That gunmen allegedly set the police station and INEC office ablaze.
A Facebook user from Awka in narrating the incident said: “This looks like mass robbery with gunshots everywhere. It is like we are in Sambisa Forest.”
Our news source gathered that the gunmen invaded the area in three fully parked Hilux vehicles.
“They shot for more than one hour at B-Division before leaving. They then stopped at Ekwueme Square and shot sporadically for about 10 minutes before proceeding to the INEC office which they set on fire.
“Awka is boiling and we are living in serious fear,” a witness said.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Sam Udekwe is a journalist working in the News and Current Affairs department, Enugu State Broadcasting Service (ESBS) Enugu. He is well trained in all genres of journalistic venture.
Mr Sam read Mass Communication, graduating all with Distinction in National Diploma, Higher National Diploma and Postgraduate Diploma at IMT, Enugu and Madonna University, Okija, Anambra state, while he is presently on his M.Sc programme also in Mass Communication, at National Open University of Nigeria.
He is currently the NUJ Chairman, Enugu state.
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