The Ikirike Police Station in Enugu State on Sunday came under attack by heavily armed men, who also carted away weapons.
Herald Nigeria leant that the gunmen came to the station on the pretext that they wanted to report an emergency situation and unleashed terror on the station.
The hoodlums, numbering about seven, swooped on the policemen on duty, injuring about five officers on duty.
It was also gathered that the gunmen took away weapons from the station’s armoury.
It was reinforcement from the Mobile 3 Police Unit and the Police Detective College located on the Agbani Road that stopped the hoodlum.
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Confirming the attack, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Ebere Amaraizu, sais, “It was an incident, which had to do with an attack by some hoodlums, who came on the pretext of lodging a complaint in the early hours of today (Sunday) and under that guise, attacked our men although there was no death. Our injured personnel are responding to treatment.
‘The quick intervention of reinforcement teams as despatched by the Commissioner of Police did not give the hoodlums the opportunity to have the upper hand.”