The police command in Anambra has arrested 34 suspected members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra ( IPOB) in connection with the killing of a police inspector in Nnewi.
Haruna Mohammed, police spokesman of the command, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday.
Haruna said some personnel and a divisional police officer (DPO) were also wounded while a police patrol van was set ablaze.
The spokesman said anti-riot police mobile force ( PMF ), counter terrorism unit (CTU), federal special anti-robbery squad (FSARS), EOD and special anti-cult unit personnel and conventional police have been deployed to Nnewi and environs.
Haruna said the incident took place on Friday at about 11:55am. He said there was intelligence report that members of IPOB were gathering near the Teaching Hospital, Owerri Road, Nnewi with intent to cause a breach of public peace.
He said following the…
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