It is feared that two persons lost their lives when gunmen attacked four Police Stations in Anambra state Friday.
The Police Stations include, Amichi , Nnewichi , Osumoghu and Ezinifite in Nnewi North and South local government areas.
This is coming twenty four hours after the Police station in Ukpor Nnewi South local government area was attacked.
It is however not clear which of the Police stations that the two persons died but it was confirmed that the number of casualties is more than eighteen.
Anambra State Police command Public Relations Officer DSP Toochukwu Ikenga confirmed the incident but could not confirm the number of deaths and casualties.
Ikenga said there was no casualty and that team of police personnel had been drafted to the area to ensure calm.
According to him, the hoodlums did not only attack Nnewiechi police but also attacked osumoghu and Ezenifite police stations .
He said that the police stations were under reconstruction, since they were among the stations affected during EndSARS saga.
According to him, after the endsars saga all the police men in the state police stations were moved to area command and there were no police men there.
“After the incident , the communities started reconstruction of those stations and they have not finished them . By the time of attack there were no policemen there. I wondered why somebody would attacked them ” he said
He said normalcy had been restored and urged residents in the area with useful information to make them available to police to enable the command deal with those responsible for the insecurity of the area.
