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Shocking: Gunmen Shot Dead Seven Police Officers
A manhunt is in progress following an evening of brutality left in any event seven cops dead in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State on Friday.
Shooters started shooting at a designated spot in the southern state, at that point headed to two police headquarters, executing officials and consuming watch vehicles, police say.
Police murdered two of the aggressors yet are looking for the individuals who got away.
It isn’t clear who was behind the killings, however the district has seen a flood in dissident assaults on police.
The unidentified furnished men, driving a Toyota Hilux van, dispatched their “shock attack” on the designated spot at Choba Bridge at around 20:30 nearby time (19:30 BST) on Friday, police representative Nnamdi Omoni said.
Subsequent to shooting dead two cops at the designated spot, they slaughtered two additional officials and put a match to a watch vehicle at Rumuji police headquarters, Mr Omoni said. Police terminated back there and slaughtered two of the assailants, he said.
The excess shooters at that point executed three additional officials at the Elimgbu police headquarters, he added.
Various cops and fighters have been killed in the locale lately, inciting an evening time check in time.
On Thursday, shooters killed two cops during an assault on another police headquarters in close by Anambra state.
Specialists put that assault on the prohibited dissenter bunch, the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob). The gathering lobbies for autonomy for the south-eastern area, where the ethnic Igbo individuals structure the dominant part.
Nigeria is additionally wrestling with Islamist aggressiveness in the north-east and banditry in the north-west, where 700 kids have been taken from schools in the previous five months.