Gunmen kill two police officers, set bodies ablaze

Gunmen have killed and set ablaze two policemen said to be on their way alongside fiver other colleagues and three civilians to a community in Anambra state, while one officer is still missing as at the time of filing this report.

Penpushing reports that, Anambra State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, who confirmed the incident, lamented that, the slain officers were traveling in a vehicle when they were ambushed by gunmen on Thursday.

The spokesman, a Deputy Superintendent of Police affirmed that in the attack two police officers were killed and their bodies were burnt while one of the officers is still missing, as at press time

Penpushing further reports that Tochukwu, said the other officers fought their way out of the ambush and were also able to rescue two out of the three civilian drivers, adding that the armed men attacked a rescue team, hurling improvised explosive devices at police vehicles.

Meanwhile, the WhatsApp clip circulating after the sad incident showed the armed men strutting around the corpses of two officers in the middle of a tarred road, and close  to the corpses, were some discarded car tires.

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