Monday, 30 May 2016

7 confirmed dead, as MASSOB protests in Asaba


No less than seven persons have been affirmed dead after challenge by individuals from the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), in Asaba on Monday. 

The Acting Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in Delta, SP Charles Muka, who
affirmed this in an announcement, included that the police recorded two setbacks. He said in the announcement that five individuals from MASSOB were murdered by military officers who had encounters with the gathering along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway in Asaba.

It expressed that the military captured and conveyed eight individuals from MASOB to the police and "are currently in authority in Asaba.'' According to him, the dissidents turned rough and assaulted the policemen sent to screen the challenge, slaughtered two and harmed two others. 

"We needed to convey our officers to guarantee that the dissent was quiet yet we were shocked that the general population turned brutal. "Shockingly, they began assaulting our men and at Okwe Junction in Abraka territory of Asaba, the gathering executed a police corporal and took his AK47 riffle. "Additionally along the Dennis Osadeby Way in Asaba, they injured a cop and took his hostile to uproar firearm. 

"This gathering additionally assaulted and injured two policemen, suspected to be marine police, and tossed them into the River Niger at Cable Point in Asaba and in the process one kicked the bucket and one was protected. "This conveys the loss number to two with two others harmed in favor of the police. 

"The nonconformists additionally assaulted military vehicles along the Asaba-Onitsha Expressway which left four individuals from the gathering dead and eight others captured and conveyed to the police base camp." It included that a pregnant lady was hit by a stray shot amid the fracas yet now getting treatment at the Federal Medical Center, Asaba. 

The announcement exhorted guardians and watchmen to caution their youngsters and wards to take after the piece of peace and seek after their plan unavoidably.

Source : Vanguard 

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