Unknown gunmen on Tuesday bombed Oba Divisional Police Headquarters, Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The attack led to the death of a police corporal while several other officers and civilians were injured.
Also, the Oba Civic Centre and some offices within the vicinity were razed by fire.
According to the spokesperson of state police command, Mr Tochukwu Ikenga, a joint security force comprising the army, navy, civil defence, and other agencies has gone after the perpetrators of the dastardly act to bring them to book..
“The suspected armed secessionist group started shooting sporadically in an attempt to gain entrance to the Police Station and threw petrol bombs at the security facility, which made some of the offices catch up with fire, including the Oba Civic Center,” Ikenga said.
“Unfortunately, a police corporal, who was fatally wounded paid the supreme price, while the fire was put off with the help of other police officers on duty and the Joint Security responding team.
“The Commissioner of Police CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, while condemning the act, described the invasion of Security facilities and hostility towards security agents as an attack on the soul of a nation and vowed to bring those behind the unholy act to book.”
