Armed men stormed Oguta police station in the Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State, on Friday night, killing a police officer in the process.
Punch learned that the gunmen who struck in the dead of the night were repelled by cops on duty, they exchanged gun fire which lasted for hours, a police man was shot dead while some of the hoodlums escaped with gunshot injuries.
The attackers on arrival, threw explosives at the police facility and opened fire on the men on duty.
A source who doesn’t want to be mentioned said,” Gunmen attacked Oguta 1 police division and killed one visiting mobile police officer.
“They threw explosives on the police station but they were engaged. They ran away with gunshot injuries with a minimal damage on the police facility.”
When contacted, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said that the attackers were repelled.
This came less than four days after Agwa and Umuaka police divisional headquarters were invaded with some of the non-state actors neutralised, exhibits recovered and policemen sustaining injuries.
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