Nigerian Police Kill Gunman In Anambra, Recover Three Rifles, Prado Jeep, Charms
The operatives also recovered two magazines loaded with live ammunition, 15 live cartridges, two police body Armoured Vests.
The Anambra State Command of the Nigeria Police Force has said that its operatives on Sunday night killed a gunman suspected to be a secessionist fighter and recovered two AK-47 rifles, one Pump Action gun, a Prado Jeep with two different plate numbers.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, who made this known in a statement issued in Awka, the state capital on Monday, said that the operatives also recovered two magazines loaded with live ammunition, 15 live cartridges, two police body Armoured Vests.
He said that at 11:30pm on Sunday, the police-led security force while on patrol within Aguata Local Government Area of the state, got information of suspected armed men sighted in a black-coloured Prado Jeep along Igbo Ukwu/Ezinifite Uga axis.
He said “The operatives on an offensive approach to the scene engaged the armed men in a gun battle and demobilised one of the miscreants while others escaped.
“Also, the Security Forces recovered two AK-47 rifles, one pump-action gun, two magazines loaded with live ammunition, 15 live cartridges, one black Prado jeep with two different plate numbers, two police body armoured vests, three face caps, one black handbag and different types of criminal charms.”
Meanwhile, the police spokesperson said that clearance operations are still ongoing in the state.
