Unknown gunmen attacked an army checkpoint at Obeagu-Amodu on the Amechi-Agbani route in Enugu State’s Enugu South Local Government Area, killing unspecified numbers of soldiers and police officers.
A report by PUNCH said that the attack took place on Tuesday at around 7:30 am.
Sources claim that the thugs attacked the checkpoint in a Toyota Sienna bus and two Lexus Jeeps.
The said attack on Tuesday will be the fourth time gunmen would attack he checkpoint.
No fewer than 12 people were killed in the earlier attacks, including roughly eight police officers.
According to sources, as gunmen stormed the checkpoint, they began fire on the combined police and military squad right away.
Sources said that all of the soldiers and police officers at the checkpoint were slain, despite the fact that the number of victims was still unclear.
Unverified accounts said that while three soldiers were injured to varying degrees, two policemen and three soldiers were killed in the incident.
The firing between the thugs and security personnel is said to have caused neighboring homeowners and drivers to flee for cover as bullets rained down like water on their homes.
In the most recent assault on the checkpoint, which had previously been guarded by police, gunfire exchanged between the attackers and four people of adjacent settlements resulted in four deaths.
However, it has been claimed that soldiers sent to pursue the hoodlums who escaped following the incident have treated drivers on the road inhumanely.
“Passengers in tricycles going to Agbani from Amechi were roughly manhandled by soldiers. They are going to villages searching for young men and parking them to their Barack in chains,” the newspaper quoted a motorists who spoke on condition of anonymity, to have said.
Security agencies are yet to confirm the report.