Three persons, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Enugu on Saturday by hoodlums enforcing Simon Ekpa’s five-day sit-at-home order in the South East.
It was gathered that the pregnant woman, whose identity could not be immediately ascertained, was killed by a stray bullet at New Market during a gun duel between the hoodlums and policemen on Saturday, December 10, 2022.
Sources said that a bullet hit the woman who came for early morning market where she hid in a store.
A viral video seen on Facebook showed two victims lying lifeless in front of the Enugu University Teaching Hospital, Parklane in a pool of blood.
The victims were said to have also been shot by the hoodlums.
Although the details of the attack were not ready available, a senior police officer confirmed the attack to PUNCH.
He however, noted that no policeman was killed, adding that a manhunt had been launched for the hoodlums.
Another short video clip of the incident shows a white police patrol vehicle on fire.
It was gathered that the hoodlums, numbering over 10, stormed the New Market area as early as 6am, probably to shut down the market but they were confronted by policemen patrolling the market area to reassure traders of their safety.
They were reported to have engaged the policemen in a gun duel and eventually succeeded in setting ablaze the police patrol vehicle while the operatives fled.
An eyewitness, Mike Ezeh, said, “I saw a group of boys around 6am this morning shouting at traders coming to market to go home. They were shouting, ‘Don’t you know there’s sit-at-home? Why are you disobeying it?’
“Shortly, I saw a police patrol vehicle coming and immediately, they engaged them in a shootout. I left my goods and ran to safety. After the shooting stopped I came out and saw they had set ablaze the police patrol vehicle parked in front of Colliery Hospital,”.
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