Gunmen Storm Akwa-Ibom Commissioner’s Home, Kill Sister, Five Others
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LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four gunmen at about 6am on Sunday at the residence of the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Udoh Ekpenyong, in Ikot Oku Usung village, Ukanafun Local Government Area of the state, shot dead his younger sister and two others.
The gunmen were said to have arrived the village on motorcycles.
In the process of fleeing the village, the gunmen started shooting sporadically into the air, hitting a barber and one other person.
They equally died on the spot.
The Public Relations Officer of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command, DSP Bala Elkana, confirmed the attack.
Elkana said the State Commissioner of Police, Zubairu Muazu, had already visited the scene of the killing.
He said: “Four armed men on motorcycles attacked the house of the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs and shot his sister dead.
“When they were leaving, they started shooting continuously.
“In the process, stray bullets killed two other persons.
“But in the Commissioner’s compound, only the woman died.
“We will get to the root of the case.”
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