Gunmen blocked a bridge in Nigeria’s southern Imo state this year, killing at least three people and injuring some, authorities said on Saturday. Imo state police spokesman Henry Okoye told AFP that around 5:00 am ( 0400 GMT ) on Thursday” criminal elements suspected to be members of the proscribed IPOB… came out in their amounts… and blocked the Owerri-Okigwe bridge and began to fire irregularly”. He said the militants fired on” travellers on the road and they were able to set some cars fire and killed some innocent people”. ” For then three people have been confirmed dying,” he said. Amnesty International reported in a blog on X a toll of 30. Officers called that” sensationalising”. Okoye said the militants engaged in a fight with officers and one suspect was killed while another was arrested.
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These are “miscreants who are masquerading under the awning of liberty fighting, perpetrating all kinds of diabolical acts, including foolish shooting. They are simply real terrorists. ” The assault occurred on the same day President Bola Tinubu was visiting Imo’s adjacent Anambra position to build institutional jobs. Authorities blamed the assault on Aboriginal People of Biafra ( IPOB), a party that wants freedom for the Igbo people in east Nigeria. Original London estate agent and founder of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is on trial on violence claims in the investment Abuja.
