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Some yet-to-be-identified gunmen in the early Wednesday morning attacked the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), in Ojoto, Idemili South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
A source said the hoodlums burnt the commission’s headquarters using (Improvised Explosive Devices) IEDs.
The Eastern Updates reports that the gunmen also attacked a police station in the Nnobi community in the same LGA. A residential building in the station was also attacked. A boy in it was killed while a girl who was also there was injured.
Sources said that the gunmen burnt the INEC office using an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, confirmed the ugly incidents in a statement, saying that the hoodlums stormed the areas around 1:45 am.
He said that the attackers came in their numbers and that they stormed the two locations in four Toyota Sienna vehicles.
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The statement reads: ‘Anambra State Police Command today 1/2/2023 has reinforced security deployment in the state, following an attack on the INEC office in Idemili South, Ojoto and Nnobi Police Station.
‘The hoodlums came in their numbers by 1:45 am today 1/2/2023, with four unmarked Sienna vehicles, armed with IEDs, Petrol bombs, and other explosives.
‘They invaded the INEC office, the Police Station, and the residential building in the station. Unfortunately, one boy aged 16 years a relative of a serving policeman in the station was murdered by the armed men, while the other, a female aged 15 years old sustained a gunshot injury. She has been taken to the hospital where she is receiving treatment.’
Recall that last weekend, unknown gunmen again attacked an office of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State.
This is coming a few hours after a similar attack in Imo State which led to the killing of a local security man.
