One Killed In Okene Police Station Attack

(AFRICAN EXAMINER0 – Some gunmen on Sunday evening attacked Okene Police Area Command Headquarters but were repelled.

One of the attackers was shot dead by police, spokesman of the Command, Williams Oyve-Aya, said yesterday in a statement.

“At about 10 p.m. of Sunday, some armed hoodlums attacked the Okene Area Command Headquarters with sporadic gunshots and explosives.

“The officers on duty repelled the attack; and in the process, shot dead one of attackers, a situation that forced the hoodlums to flee even before the arrival of police back-up teams from the neighbouring divisions’’.

The command spokesman, who said that normalcy had returned to the Okene community, added that thorough search for the hoodlums had begun.

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