Two police officers on patrol duty were tragically killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Okigwe, Imo State, on Sunday.
The officers, who were attached to Mopol 18 Owerri, were reportedly ambushed near the old Gariki area when assailants opened fire.
It was reported that while two officers succumbed to the attack, others sustained injuries but managed to escape the scene.
ASP Henry Okoye, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, described the incident as “very unfortunate.”
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He stated that the Commissioner of Police, Imo State, CP Aboki Danjuma, has “strongly condemned the attack and gruesome murder of two of our personnel.”
These officers were “deployed on routine patrol duty,” Okoye added.
Commissioner Danjuma, accompanied by the Commander of Mopol 18 and other senior officers, has since visited the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
“We have deployed tactical teams and charged them to go all out, in synergy with the military, to hunt down the hoodlums responsible for this senseless act of violence,” Okoye affirmed.
