Gunmen Enforcing Sit-at-home Attack Enugu Market, Burn Police Operational Vehicle

A police patrol vehicle was ambushed and set on fire in the New Market area of Enugu State on Saturday morning by some ‘Unknown Gunmen’ implementing the five-day sit-at-home order issued by Biafra agitator Simon Ekpa, who is living in the diaspora.

However, the attack did not result in any fatalities, despite the fact that it greatly increased local panic.

In an effort to implement Ekpa’s sit-at-home order, the over ten hoodlums rushed the New Market area as early as 6 am. However, they apparently encountered several police officers on the ground and attacked them.

They allegedly engaged the police officers stationed at the market in a gunfight before successfully setting fire to their patrol car.

Some of the market’s early-arriving traders fled for safety, leaving their products behind.

An eyewitness, Mike Ezeh said, “I saw a group of boys around 6 am this morning shouting on traders coming to market to go home. They were shouting; don’t you know there’s sit-at-home? Why are you disobeying it?

“Shortly, I saw a police patrol vehicle coming, and immediately, they engaged them in a shootout. I left my goods and ran to safety. After the shooting stopped I came out and saw they had set ablaze the police patrol vehicle in front of the Colliery hospital.”

There is yet to be any report from the state police station.