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Gunmen kill Inspector Austin Ugwu, two other police officers in Abia

No fewer than three police officers attached to the Abia State Police Command have been killed unknown gunmen.

It was gathered that the police officers serving at the Abiriba police division were gunned down in Abiriba in the Ohafia Local Government Area of the state on Monday.

Those killed were identified as Inspector Austin Ugwu, Inspector Longinus Ugochukwu and PC Ama Ifeanyi, SaharaReporters says.

The officers were ambushed around 8.30 am by the gunmen who killed them and took away two of their riffles.

The incident comes barely a month after two police officers were killed by armed men who invaded a police station in Aba, Abia state.

The attackers also burnt all the operational vehicles parked within the premises of the police station.

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