Ebonyi state Police command has confirmed the invasion of Onueke Police station, in Ezza South Local Government area of Ebonyi state by hoodlums, killing two Inspectors and a woman who was inside her house when the incident happened.
The gunmen according to the command’s spokesperson, DSP Loveth Odah, invaded the police station and opened fire on the officers on duty which led to the killing of the two policemen and injuring of two others, while the corpse of a woman living close to the station was also seen.
She said the corpses have been deposited in the morgue while investigation into the ugly incident was on.
” The corpses of the policemen had been deposited in a mortuary while the two injured ones were receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital” she added.
It was also gathered that the hoodlums made away with two AK 47 rifles kept at the station.
Commissioner for Internal Security, Ebonyi state, Mr. Stanley Emegha, said that government was shocked by the incident and had given security agencies forty-eight hours to brief the government on how such breach occurred without any intelligence to counter it.