The police in Anambra State on Monday killed two gunmen enforcing the suspended Indigenous People of Biafra sit-at-home order in Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area of Anambra State.
It was learnt that the gunmen attacked some traders at a roundabout, close to the popular Nkwo Umunze market, burnt a motorcycle, and destroyed some goods.
A video clip circulating in some WhatsApp groups showed several wheelbarrows filled with rice, garri and beans, thrown on the ground by the gunmen.
Also discovered in the video clip was the burnt motorcycle. A background voice in the clip said the attacked traders flouted the sit-at-home order.
Confirming the report, the state police spokesman, Tochukwu Ikenga, said two of the gunmen later met their doom during a shootout with police operatives.
Ikenga, who confirmed the burning of some motorcycles by the gunmen, added that police in the state have new strategies of tackling the rising insecurity and to track down gunmen terrorising residents.
First reported how arsonists between Sunday night and early hours of Monday morning burnt down the headquarters of Idemili North Local Government Council, a Magistrate Court, and a sub-office of an electric distribution company located inside the secretariat.
IPOB has since said it has suspended the sit-at-home order in the South-East. The group has been blaming political thugs and cultists as being responsible for the sit-at-home still going on in the South-East being suspended.