Yet-to-be identified hoodlums have on Wednesday launched an attack on the Idemili South Local Government Area office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Anambra State.
Confirming the attack,the State Police Command said a police station was also attacked by the gunmen in Ojoto.
The state’s PPRO,DSP Tochukwu Ikenga while speaking with newsmen in Onitsha, disclosed that two casualties were recorded in the attack
“The hoodlums, who came in their numbers at about 1:45 a.m. today with four unmarked Sienna cars, armed with improvised explosive devices, petrol bombs, invaded the INEC office, the police station and a residential building within the station.
“Unfortunately, a 16-year-old relative of a serving policeman in the station was murdered by the armed men while another 15-year-old girl sustained gunshot injury,” Ikenga said.
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He added that the injured girl had been taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention.