As the Monday sit-at-home in Enugu metropolis went on without any violent occurrence, however unconfirmed reports have it that unknown armed persons had vehicles bearing early morning passengers.
The passengers may have been trying to beat the observance of the sit-at-home protest before they ran into the armed killer men.
According to some survivors eye witness account, “the gunmen struck around Colliery Hospital, adjacent to Iva Valley Road, near Aria (New Market) Enugu, early this morning. and shot dead some passengers going out for morning business and wounded some.
“The police who had arrived after the incident conveyed some of victims with gunshot injuries, including one shot on the stomach with his intestines outside to ESUT Parklane hospital .
“One other woman has a bullet that pierced through leg.”
PPRO Daniel Nduke,ASP,in response to a demand for confirmation said: “Good morning. There was no such fatal attack. Rather, there was a shooting incident at Odegba, along Iva Valley Road, Enugu in the early hours of this morning, by yet-to-be identified armed men, which led to the injury of two persons. However, the victims are responding to treatment at the hospital where they were promptly taken to by Police Operatives, who swiftly responded to a distress call on the incident. Meanwhile, investigation has been launched to fish out the fleeing miscreants, please”.
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