The police have confirmed the killing.
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“Yes. The gunmen attacked the policemen at their checkpoint close to Blossom Hotel and killed four of them,” Mr Onwumelu said. “Aside from the police people they killed, they were just shooting at people indiscriminately as if they wanted people to go home,” he said.PREMIUM TIMES delivers fact-based journalism for Nigerians, by Nigerians — and our community of supporters, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth, meticulously researched news and information.
The operatives were ambushed while on a routine patrol at Irete, at the Owerri-Onitsha Expressway, he said. IPOB is a group leading the agitation for an independent state of Biafra, which it wants carved out from the South-east and some parts of South-south Nigeria.
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