The police in Anambra on Sunday affirmed that a shooter killed eight admirers and harmed 18 others in an early morning assault on St. Philip Catholic Church, Ozubulu, Ekwusigo Local Government Area. The Commissioner of Police, Garba Umar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka that the remaining
parts of the dead had been kept at Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi.
parts of the dead had been kept at Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi.
Umar likewise said that the harmed were taken to the healing center.
He said that preparatory examinations by the police uncovered that the assault was done by a local of the region.
"From our discoveries, it is evident that the individual who conveyed the assault must be an indigene of the region.
We accumulated that admirers for 6 o'clock Sunday mass at St. Philip Ozobulu were in the administration when a shooter wearing dark clothing covering his face with a top entered the congregation and moved straight to a specific heading and started shooting.
The man in the wake of shooting at his focused on casualties still went on a shooting binge, executing and injuring different admirers,'' he said.
The magistrate said data accessible to police demonstrated that the assailant was talking undiluted Igbo Language at the time he was terminating at admirers.
Umar said however no capture had been made yet that the police as of now learnt that the assault took after a squabble between two locals of Ozubulu living abroad.
Depicting the go about as offensive, the official of police said it wasn't right for the culprits of the demonstration to expand their squabble into the congregation.
He included: "such direct demonstrates the general population behind the demonstration don't fear God.''
He said the police had propelled a manhunt on those behind the demonstration and gave an affirmation that everyone behind the demonstration will be conveyed to equity.
Umar portrayed any intimation that the assault was completed by Boko Haram components as false and asked the general population to approach their typical organizations.
He said the police is over the circumstance.
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