BREAKING: Unknown gunmen kill 10, abduct students in southeast Nigeria
Ten people including two police officers have been killed and a number of students abducted in Nigeria’s southeast, police said Friday, in a region where separatist tensions are on the rise.
Ten people including two police officers have been killed and a number of students abducted in Nigeria’s southeast, police said Friday, in a region where separatist tensions are on the rise.
“Two police operatives paid the supreme price,” state police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu said in a statement, adding an investigation was underway to identify the perpetrators.
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Moreso, he said the gunmen also set part of the police station and two vehicles ablaze before fleeing.
In a separate incident Thursday, a team of police and other security forces repelled an attack on Orlu police station in neighbouring Imo state, police said.
The police, however, have blamed the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), an outlawed separatist movement seeking independence for the Igbo people of the southeast, for some of the attacks.
But IPOB has denied these charges.
Elsewhere in the same region, the Abia state government said some university students and passengers were kidnapped by unknown gunmen Wednesday on a highway to neighbouring Imo state.
Abia information commissioner John Okiyi Kalu said the students “ran into the armed gang who marched them into the nearby forest along with other yet to be identified travellers”.
“Two of the students managed to escape… while others are still being held,” he said.
