Monday, 7 August 2017

TRENDING: POLICE APPREHEND SUSPECTS OF OZUBULU MASSACRE



With the promise by the Police Command in Anambra state to go after the perpetrators of the attack on worshippers in the St. Phillips Catholic Church, Ozubulu, some suspects have been apprehended.

Reports reaching NAIJ NEWS ALERT from Channels Television but without details, has it that some suspects allegedly involved in the killing of 12 people at the St. Philips Catholic Church in Ozubulu area of Anambra State.

It could be recalled that Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, who visited the scene of the attack, had promised that investigations would commence immediately to bring the perpetrators to book.

Anambra State Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Garba Umar, while giving accounts of the attack, told Channels Television that the gunmen went into the church during an early morning mass and shot sporadically at worshippers.

"The attack was not unconnected to what he described as gang violence between some indigenes of the state", he further stated.

“Information further revealed that this is not unconnected to a kind of a "gang war" between indigenes of the state "the children of the same village" who are engaged in a warfare outside Nigeria, precisely in South Africa.

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According to him, many people were injured in the attack while some of the victims died on their way to the hospital.