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Gunmen on Friday morning killed five policemen at the Okpala Junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State.

Also killed were a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu who hailed from Amankwo Okpala community.

The incident has thrown the junction and the entire community into a state of panic as commercial activities had abruptly come to end.

A source who identified himself as Uche and a relative to the couple told our correspondent that the slain cops drove from neighbouring Abo Mbaise police division to eat at the junction.

He said that while the policemen were eating, some gunmen drove to the scene and opened fire on them.

He said that while three police were shot dead at the scene, two others ran to a nearby shot but their attackers raced to the shop and killed them and equally killed a couple who owned the shop they ran into.

The eyewitness disclosed that after killing the policemen, the gunmen carted away their five rifles.

The source said, “It is a black Friday in our community. Gunmen around 8am shot five policemen dead at Okpala junction. The policemen drove in a white coloured Hilux from Aboh Mbaise Police Division to eat at the junction.

“As they were eating, gunmen drove to the place and opened fire on them. Two out of the five policemen ran to a nearby shop where a couple sold meat pie and sachet water. After killing the three policemen, they came two the shop where the two other officers were hiding, and killed them. They also killed a husband and wife that owned the shop.

“They took away their rifles and drove off. This is so unfortunate. Our community is bleeding. Everybody is confused. The couple just relocated from Lagos about one year ago. We just deposited their bodies in a mortuary. The market is shut. People here ran away out of shock and fear. This is unbelievable.”

Another source, Dominic Okpor, told our correspondent that he saw the lifeless bodies of the cops on the road when he drove through the Owerri – Aba Road.

Okpor described it as horrible. “The bodies of the five policemen were lying on the road as we drove through. Their Hilux was also parked at the junction. The scene was horrible. It is terrible. God have mercy.”

When ed, the spokesperson for the police in the state, Henry Okoye, said that he had yet to be briefed on murder incident.

He however promised to make enquiries and revert to our correspondent but he had yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.

Our correspondent recalls that on March 27 some fleeing gunmen ambushed and killed five personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in the same Ngor Okpala LGA.

https://punchng.com/breaking-gunmen-kill-five-policemen-couple-in-imo/

Nothing will ever surprise me in this government anymore....the evil party call APC and the Supreme Court governor becoming something else....

Obi will not say anything despite the fact the level of insecurity in the South East has become critical. If he has the solution as he claimed why has he not told South East Governors.

We thank God he did not come close to winning in the last presidential election. If it were to be in the North, Obi would have been the first person to tweet about it. But since it is in his backyard, he has gone blind. I don't know why southern leaders love other regions more that where they come from.

I believe strongly that Tinubu's Government will be different. God bless Nigeria

Modified:

I have received too many insults because of the post I made above. I did not mean to hurt any body's feeling. I just felt that if someone like Peter Obi with global influence should tweet or speak about the insecurity in the South East, it would draw global attention to that region just like the letter written to American President Joe Biden by Igbo prolific and renowned writer Chimamanda Adichie that drew global attention to the Nigeria Presidential election

Let's blame Tinubu. Never will these wailers take responsibility!

kanu men on rampage again.

Wagwanbrethren:
Let's blame Tinubu.

Of course, you should. After all, he's a druglord and criminal spreading thuggery, rascality and criminality around the country.

Wagwanbrethren:
Let's blame Tinubu. Never will these wailers take responsibility!

The drug baron is to blame, he has been funding his fellow fugitive, Ekpa

This is the same IMO where policemen attacked students with Cutlass, because they wanted to search their phones?

BiafranPatriot:
This is the same IMO where policemen attacked students with Cutlass, because they wanted to search their phones?

Yes, same imo where the FG is usingnpolice to destabilise.

Exactly...

successmatters:


Yes, same imo where the FG is usingnpolice to destabilise.

Crazy..... Just ed that road now

successmatters:


The drug baron is to blame, he has been funding his fellow fugitive, Ekpa

From the look of things, Tinubu is sponsoring Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, pandora Obituary, Abure, Atiku, ipob terrorists, ESN, headless mobs and nattering nitwits. Infact, it is clear Tinubu sponsored ojukwu.

This Tinubu must be a god.

My dear Owerri 💔

They have added Friday to the killings. Peter Obi won't talk about this except to rant about poverty in the North.

Poorly trained policemen. They only show their strength at the sight of hapless and helpless citizens.

Where is obimumu?.... make em talk abt this, abi wetin dey happen in his region no concern him ni

Lord have mercy

Xscape1993:
It is now killing time.... Yheboe Land becoming something else....

Fixed!

LeoDeKing:

From the look of things, Tinubu is sponsoring Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, pandora Obituary, Abure, Atiku, ipob terrorists, ESN, headless mobs and nattering nitwits. Infact, it is clear Tinubu sponsored ojukwu.

This Tinubu must be a god.

Tinubu is the Lord of IBoland, he controls their minds. Haaa Tilumbu why!

Alright

Hope Uzodimma should not kill everyone o, with his Ebube agu boys

Y didn't they kill only the police and leave the shop owners.


RIP to the shop owners....

Xscape1993:
It is now killing time.... Nigeria Alaibo becoming something else....

Dey your lane please

successmatters:


The drug baron is to blame, he has been funding his fellow fugitive, Ekpa

Tinubu is the alpha and omega of Alaibo for locking you up at home every Monday

What's funny is that I was supposed to be at this particular location to deliver a job this morning.

My driver disappointed and I was very angry at him. It was later that the client called and told me not to come

Wagwanbrethren:
Let's blame Tinubu. Never will these wailers take responsibility!

I’m convinced most if not all of these reoccurring senseless murders in the south-east are linked, no matter how tenuous, to the criminal Tinubu political machinery! There were none of these senseless killings in the south-east from election day of 25th march right up until about a week or so ago…obviously, until it became apparent to the mandate thieving Tinubu gang that Peter Obi wasn’t gonna give up his stolen mandate without a fight and obedients were prepared to dig deep into Tinubus’ sordid past and bring to the front burner all his past and present criminal escapades for Nigerians to see!

Xscape1993:
It is now killing time.... Nigeria East becoming something else....

Fixed.

Barbaric,criminally minded, murderous beasts.
These are the same set of murderers that they may have unleashed during the elections to steal the people's mandates