Onitsha, Nigieria, 01 July-(ANA)-Gunmen in southeastern Nigeria have attacked a convoy of police and expatriate workers in a botched kidnap attempt, killing five officers, police said today.
Police exchanged fire early on Tuesday with the gang as they were escorting expatriate workers to their office at a bottling company in the city of Aba in Abia state.
"The kidnapping gang had laid an ambush," said Abayomi Ladipo, acting police commander of the district.
"The kidnappers opened fire on two cars and set them ablaze, burning to death five police men in one of the vehicles."
No arrests have been made and no group has claimed responsibility. (ANA)
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