Breaking: Gunmen kill two US Embassy staff, two cops, set them ablaze in Anambra

By Kazeem Ugbodaga

Gunmen regain reportedly killed two policemen and two workers of the United States Consulate and assign their our bodies ablaze Amiyi/Eke Ochuche communities in Ogbaru Local Authorities Predicament of Anambra Instruct.

The US Embassy workers had been stated to be on a humanitarian mission within the dwelling when the gunmen ambushed their convoy and shot four other folks ineffective.

Some others had been stated to regain sustained injuries as they escaped from the scene of the tragedy. The incident reportedly befell spherical 3.30pm on Tuesday.

Spokesperson, Anambra Police Expose, DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, stated, the joint security forces had embarked on a rescue/recovery operation in Ogbaru LGA, following an assault on a convoy of workers of US Consulate nowadays Might perchance well well 15, 2023 by 3:30 pm along Atani, Osamale boulevard.

Ikenga stated the hoodlums murdered two of the Police Cell Power operatives, and two workers of the Consulate, and assign their our bodies ablaze alongside their vehicles.

He added that the arsonist and murderers on sighting the responding joint security forces kidnapped two police operatives, the motive force of the 2d automobile and took to their heels, announcing that no U S citizen became once within the convoy.

Ikenga acknowledged that the repeat, while reacting to the place of abode regretted that a convoy of such or any connected would enter the assert without recourse to the police within the dwelling or any security agency.

He assured that the fight against the insurgents within the Instruct is targeted and would live sustained till this sort of time security stability became once completely restored.