By Anne Osemekeh, Abuja
A police officer has been confirmed dead following an attack on a checkpoint in Ebonyi by unidentified gunmen.
The Ebonyi Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Joshua Ukandu, confirmed the attack today.
He said that the gunmen, operating with an ash-coloured Sienna vehicle, attacked the police operatives on Thursday morning at Ishieke junction along Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway in Ebonyi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Ukandu stated that the unknown gunmen shot sporadically at the officers, who engaged them fiercely and were able to repel them. However, one of the officers was fatally wounded and a patrol vehicle set ablaze.
According to the PPRO, the Commissioner of Police, Augustina Ogbodo, immediately deployed police operatives to the scene.
They are on the trail of the hoodlums.
