Two person have been confirmed dead as gunmen attacked the Assemblies of God Church in Oguta Onitsha in Anambra.
Report according to Punch revealed that the gunmen on sighting some policemen at the Assemblies of God Church, opened fire on them.
And that when the shooting became intense for them to contain the policemen abandoned their patrol vehicle.
“The gunmen moved to their patrol van and took a gun belonging to the policeman they killed. “I saw two of the gunmen but I can’t say how many they are in number. eyewitness said
Another eyewitness said, “Gunmen on Okada (motorcycle) shot a policeman and collected his rifle.
They also shot dead an Okada man while escaping, and the passenger he was carrying was injured.
The policeman was the one armed among his colleagues ; they were providing security while church service was going on at Assemblies of God Church, Oguta road Onitsha.
The Anambra state Commissioner of Police, Mr Garba Umar confirmed the incident to journalists.
He said it was not an attack on the church, adding “My men were on patrol near the church when they were attacked by some gunmen.
It was not an attack on the church, in the real sense of it”. The commissioner confirmed that the hoodlums took away a rifle belonging to the slain cop.
A Facebook user, Aniede Obinna Daniel said that the shooting did not occur in a church and that a man on a bike going to church along oguta road was shot by some guy with gun and the bike man but the bike man has something that protected him so the passenger dead.
According to him, "Aniede Obinna Daniel Something you guys did not understand is that the shooting is not in a church its a man on a bike going to church along oguta road some guy with gun block and short the man and the bike man but the bike man has something that protected him so the passenger dead."
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