Six policemen have been reportedly killed in the early hours of Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at Obubra in central Cross River State.
This comes barely a week when four policemen were killed in Calabar, the states capital.
A source in the area, Ebokpo disclosed that the gunmen driving in a sienna car attacked policemen at a checkpoint at Onyadama and killed four of them and also took away their weapons.
He said: “The same gang drove down to Ofatura checkpoint and shot sporadically and the policemen at the checkpoint took to their heels but two were shot at the back and they died.
“One of the policemen killed in Ofatura is called Raymond and is from that village. People are really wailing here.”
He said the gunmen also made away with the policemen gun and abandoned the sienna car, snatched another vehicle and drove away.
He also disclosed that the Obubra junction some three kilometres away from Ofatura, there was an exchange of gunfire with soldiers at the military checkpoint and a soldier was shot at the arm.
‘They started from Onyadama, moved to Ofatura and headed to Obubra junction and now going towards Ikom. We do not know their mission.”
Cross River Police Command spokesperson, Irene Ugbo, confirmed the incident saying, “That is what I heard but we are trying to very what really happened.”
