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Gunmen operating in Anambra State have again attacked a police station in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state, on Tuesday morning, killing a police corporal.
Police authorities in Anambra State have confirmed the attack, saying that the police operative was killed after a petrol bomb was tossed into the police station by the gunmen who were suspected to be separatist elements.
Police Public Relations Officer, Tochukwu Ikenga, who confirmed the incident, stated that 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 stated that operations have commenced this morning, with police-led joint security forces comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil defence and other security agencies currently in a joint onslaught operation within Oba and its environments.
This would be the third recent attack on police in the state, after those of Nnewi and Nnobi, which happened in August.
