Police Neutralise 2 Armed Hoodlums & Record One Fatal Injury On Security Operatives With One Operational Vehicle Burnt
Posted on May 16, 2025
CHUKA UBAH
One of the Anambra Joint Security Team in the late evening of 15th May, 2025, resisted an attack by armed criminals at the Security checkpoint in Isuofia. Two of the armed hoodlums were neutralized in the process. Regrettably, one of the security operatives was fatally wounded, while one of the security operational vehicles was burnt by the bandits.
P.M.EXPRESS reports that during the ensuing gun battle and due to the superior fire of the Joint security team, the criminals abandoned one of their operational vehicles, a Toyota Sienna and fled the scene.
The Commissioner of Police, CP Ikioye Orutugu fwc MNIPS PhD, has condemned the act and viewed it as a test of Ndi Anambra’s collective resolve to work with the security forces to dislodge and eliminate criminal elements in the State.
The CP assured that the Command will apprehend the perpetrators behind this unpatriotic act.
According to the Police Spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, calm has returned to the area and security reinforced with more armed operatives currently combing nearby bushes for possible arrest of the fleeing miscreants.
