Gunmen set Imo monarch ablaze as police begins manhunt to arrest assailants

‎The Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, Audu Garba Bosso, has deployed tactical units with disposable operational assets to spell each out, successful synergy with different information agencies and hunt down hoodlums suspected to beryllium liable for the decease of the accepted ruler of Ochia Autonomous Community, Eze Paulinus Ekwueme, who was burnt to decease by chartless assailants.

In a property statement, the Command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, said the incidental took spot on Asa Awara Road, Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of the state.
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He explained that the deployment of information unit to the country followed a distress study received from Ohaji Police Division connected April 10, 2026, indicating that equipped assailants attacked the monarch and killed him alongside 5 different yet-to-be-identified victims.
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‎Okoye said upon receiving the report, the CP instantly mobilized and dispatched tactical teams to the country astatine Asa, wherever operatives recovered the burnt corpses of the deceased persons, which person been evacuated and deposited astatine the Federal University Teaching Hospital, FUTH, Owerri, for preservation and autopsy.
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“‎Consequently, the Command has commenced a broad probe into the incident, portion intensive operations are ongoing to apprehend the flee...