Lagos,Nigeria — Gunmen have set two police stations ablaze in Nigeria’s southeast and freed inmates, police said Tuesday, in the latest attacks in a region where separatist tensions have been rising.
In apparently coordinated attacks, gunmen with explosives stormed into police headquarters at Ukpo in Anambra state and another station in Abia state early Monday.
“The attackers, who came in… shooting sporadically in order to gain access to the facility, were repelled by police personnel,” Anambra police area spokesman Nwode Nkeiruka said in a statement.
“Following the inability of the attackers to access the facility, they cowardly threw petrol bombs and Improvised E…
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