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A gun has killed Nigerian police at a southern oil center: Police | Nigerian news

River State police stations and security controls are deteriorating security in the country.

Army men have killed at least seven Nigerian policemen on the night of an attack on an oil center in southern Rivers State, police said on Saturday.

The attackers fired at the checkpoint on Friday afternoon and then rushed to two police stations, the statement said. Authorities fired, killed two of the attackers and injured others who fled in a stolen car, police added.

The killings are undermining security in Rivers State (the capital of Port Harcourt, the gateway to the oil-rich Niger Delta delta region) and has reached other places in Africa’s largest crude exporter.

Last month, Rivers State banned the crossing of borders at night to kill police, customs officials, civil defense officers and soldiers.

On Friday, gunmen drove two Toyota Hilux vans at GMT at 7.30pm and killed two officers at a Choba Bridge checkpoint, police spokeswoman Nnamdi Omoni said in a statement.

The army then killed two other officers and set fire to a patrol car at the Rumuji police station, Omoni added. He said police shot and killed two of the attackers.

The remaining attackers stormed the Elimgbu police station and killed three officers before fleeing under police fire, the document added. Omoni said the men fled “several shots wounded” in a stolen car.

The attackers stole five assault rifles, and police launched a manhunt, he added.

The Nigerian parliament last week called on the presidency, the armed forces and the police to increase insecurity, and the chamber called on President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency.

Since December, bandits have kidnapped more than 700 people in northwestern schools, armed groups have killed numerous soldiers and civilians in the northeast, and kidnappings and crime have risen nationwide.




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