Suspected gunmen operating in Anambra State have again attacked a police station in

Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state and killed a corporal officer.

This would be the third recent attack on police in the state, after those of Nnewi and

Nnobi, which happened in August, where some operatives paid the supreme prices.

Police authorities in Anambra State have confirmed the attack, saying that the police

operative was killed after a petrol bomb was tossed into the police station by the

gunmen who were suspected to be separatist elements.

Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, in a reply to the media on the

attack said: the suspected armed secessionist group started shooting sporadically in an

attempt to gain entrance to the police station and threw petrol bombs at the security

facility which made some of the offices catch up with fire including the Oba Civic Center.

Ikenga said, operations have commenced this morning, with police-led joint security

forces comprising of the Army, Navy, Civil defence and other security agencies currently

in a joint onslaught operation within Oba and its environments, while, the Commissioner

of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam described the attack as invasion of security facilities

and hostility towards security agents, and as an attack on the soul of a nation, and

vowed to bring those behind the unholy act to book.