The Amandugba Divisional Police Headquarters in Isu LGA of Imo State has been set ablaze.
The latest attack increased the number of police stations burnt to four in the state in less than one week.
Tribune Online reports that the attackers threw inflammable substances at the police facility and it ignited fire.
The development heightened the tension in the state, as the people of the state totally complied with the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Monday.
The burning of the police facility was the only violent development in the state on Monday.
An eyewitness told Nigerian Tribune that “Isu Divisional Police Headquarters is on fire now. The attackers threw explosives objects and it caught fire immediately.”
But the Imo State Police Command Public Relation Officer, SP. Bala Elkana, when contacted said that the Police building was still intact as nothing had happened to it.
He said that some hoodlums attempted to set the building ablaze with fuel but they were repelled.
The PPRO said the hoodlums who were few meters away from the police station had thrown their container of fuel to the building but the container did not get to the building before catching fire.
He said: “The Police building is intact and nothing has happened to it. The hoodlums who wanted to raze it were repelled.”
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