Four policemen killed in attack blamed on Biafran separatists in Nigeria

21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –

At least four Nigerian police officers died on Monday in an attack carried out by alleged members of the separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) against a police station in the state of Anambra (southeast), amid the increase in incidents of this type in recent months.

The Anambra Police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, has indicated that the clashes at the police station, located in Obosi, also resulted in the death of three presumed members of the IPOB, according to the Nigerian newspaper ‘The Premium Times’.

Likewise, it has highlighted that two people suspected of having participated in the assault have been arrested in the framework of the security operations launched after the event, which also resulted in the burning of several police vehicles.

The IPOB has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on Imo in recent months. The group, founded by Nnamdi Kanu in the UK in 2014 and declared a terrorist group by Abuja, has established itself as the voice of Biafrans.

The Biafra region proclaimed its independence from Nigeria on May 30, 1967, triggering a bloody civil war that lasted for three years and left more than a million dead, mostly from starvation.