Tension is high in Eke community, Udi Local Government Area of Enugu State following the alleged killing of a neighborhood watch group member by soldiers
Also allegedly shot dead is a house wife from the same community.
He said they suddenly got a distress call that armed robbers blocked the major road leading to the popular Catholic Church Prayer Center and Eke, from Ama breweries. “We obeyed the soldiers and stopped, telling them that we were neighborhood watch members. At that point, they then asked us to keep coming.
Going further, Anigbo said, “the same soldier kept on matching me on the chest, saying, I will kill you today. He said from the available information in the Division’s disposal, the deceased woman was killed by a strange bullet from armed hoodlums who engaged the soldiers in a shootout.
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