Sep. 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Nigerian authorities have confirmed the death of five people, including two advisers to a senator, in the attack carried out on Sunday by unidentified armed persons against the convoy of a parliamentarian in the state of Anambra (south).
Anambra Police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga said the fatalities were two policemen and three civilians, including two advisers to Senator Ifeanyi Ubah, who escaped unharmed.
He also added that two other agents are hospitalized for injuries sustained during the assault, while pointing out that for the moment there have been no arrests, as reported by the Nigerian newspaper ‘The Premium Times’.
Insecurity in Nigeria, previously centered in the northeast of the country, has spread in recent months to other areas in the north and northwest, raising alarms about the possible expansion of these terrorist and criminal networks.
On the other hand, the south of the country has been the scene of an uptick in attacks, most of them blamed on the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), an organization founded by Nnamdi Kanu in the United Kingdom in 2014 and declared a terrorist group in 2018. for Abuja, which has established itself as the voice of the Biafran people, among other things thanks to Radio Biafra, which broadcasts from London to the southeast of Nigeria.
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