Two individuals had been feared killed and a few others injured when native safety operatives and policemen i’m busy in a gun tournament that lasted a number of mins. In Anambra Surrounding on Wednesday.
Our correspondent accumulated that the incident came about on the Izuchukwu Junction, Nnobi/Nnewi Highway.
Some witnesses within the department mentioned a car additionally stuck hearth when bullets crash the gas tank all through the incident, thereby additional developing panic throughout the department.
Some of the assets mentioned, “The incident came about endmost evening (Wednesday). We simply noticed safety operatives enticing oen some other in a gun struggle and all through the incident, two passers-by had been crash via bullets.
“No one knew the cause of the incident as people scampered to safety. Even, a vehicle was burnt down when bullets hit the fuel tank.”
The incident was once additionally corroborated in some movies circulating on-line the place some voices narrated what transpired.
The spokesman for the Anambra Surrounding Police Command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, when contacted at the building on Thursday, showed the incident.
Ikenga mentioned the native safety forces took the police operatives for “unfriendly forces” and opened hearth on them, thereby well-known to the gun tournament.
He mentioned, “The command is acutely aware of the capturing incident that took park at Izuchukwu junction, Nnobi/Nnewi street via 7 pm on Wednesday 20/11/2024 the place safety operatives mistook the police operatives as unfriendly forces and opened hearth at them.
“Then again, the command needs to emphasize that the assault at the operatives was once now not from non-state actors or any try to disrupt the burial of past due Senator Ifeanyi Ubah.
“Initial data confirmed that safety operatives on investigation trailed a suspect to a safety checkpoint earlier than the gun tournament ensued.
“Unfortunately, bullets hit the fuel tank of the Toyota Venza Sedan carrying the men, and it was razed down. Two innocent passers-by were injured and taken to hospital. The command sues for calm to allow for investigations into the incident.”
He steered Nnewi citizens to not panic, pronouncing that Joint Safety Forces were deployed to assure Nnewi is peace all through the burial ceremonies of the past due senator.