The Joint Security Forces comprising of the Police, Army, Navy, Civil Defence and other security agencies are on the trail of arsonists and armed secessionist group members, who in the early hours of Monday attacked the Umunze Police Station in Anambra State.
The security team have recovered five unexploded improvised explosives.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Tochukwu Ikenga, made this known in a statement made available to Channels Television on Monday.
He said the suspected armed group invaded the police facility with improvised explosives, shooting sporadically, with part of the station catching fire.
“Unfortunately, two of the Police Operatives on duty during the gun battle in a bid to resist the assailants from causing more havoc, paid the supreme price.
“Their bodies have been recovered and taken to the morgue,” the statement said.
Ikenga added that the Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam, visited the scene for an on the spot assessment to reinforce and reassess security deployment.
The CP was said to have called on anyone who has any information that will aid the investigation to come forward, and also assured utmost confidentiality to any such information in that regard.
