Gunmen on Sunday shot and killed a policeman and one other person in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
The incident, which happened on Sunday at about 7.45am, took place at Amadi-Ama Town, causing pandemonium around the area as passers-by scampered for safety.
Four armed men, according to an eyewitness, stormed the area and shot at a policeman and a youth suspect to be a member of a cult group.
The youth, who was in a pool of his blood after he was hit by the armed gang, was later identified as Gift, alleged to be a member of Greenlander.
It was learnt that while Gift died on the spot, the policeman was said to have died after being rushed to a nearby hospital within the state capital.
The police, however, embarked on mass arrest within the area, where the incident took place following the killing of their colleagues.
The wife of one of those arrested by the police, Mrs. Seline Koko, disclosed that security operatives took away her husband while he was ironing his clothes.
Pleading with the police to release her husband, Mrs. Koko maintained that her husband knew nothing about the incident at Amadi Town.
“I am appealing that the police should release my husband because he does not know anything about what happened. He was ironing some clothes when the police came and arrested him. I have gone to some police stations around the place, but my husband is not there,” she said.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that 25 persons were arrested in connection with the killing of a policeman and a suspected cultist.
== Punch News
The incident, which happened on Sunday at about 7.45am, took place at Amadi-Ama Town, causing pandemonium around the area as passers-by scampered for safety.
Four armed men, according to an eyewitness, stormed the area and shot at a policeman and a youth suspect to be a member of a cult group.
The youth, who was in a pool of his blood after he was hit by the armed gang, was later identified as Gift, alleged to be a member of Greenlander.
It was learnt that while Gift died on the spot, the policeman was said to have died after being rushed to a nearby hospital within the state capital.
The police, however, embarked on mass arrest within the area, where the incident took place following the killing of their colleagues.
The wife of one of those arrested by the police, Mrs. Seline Koko, disclosed that security operatives took away her husband while he was ironing his clothes.
Pleading with the police to release her husband, Mrs. Koko maintained that her husband knew nothing about the incident at Amadi Town.
“I am appealing that the police should release my husband because he does not know anything about what happened. He was ironing some clothes when the police came and arrested him. I have gone to some police stations around the place, but my husband is not there,” she said.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ahmad Mohammad, who confirmed the incident, disclosed that 25 persons were arrested in connection with the killing of a policeman and a suspected cultist.
== Punch News
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