The gunmen were said to have attacked the operatives at their checkpoint at about 5:30 p.m. on Friday in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State.
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A resident of the area, Tochukwu Ogbuagu, said the operatives were conducting routine stop and search operations when the hoodlums attacked them. Another resident of the area, who asked not to be named, said several traders in the area ran away during the attack.“Many abandoned food items and ran away. Some were matching those food items while running away,” he said.
IPOB is a group leading agitation for an independent state of Biafra which it wants carved out from the south-east and some parts of the south-south Nigeria.
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