Confusion took the centre stage in Ezinifitte, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra state when gunmen stormed a burial ceremony forging the mourners and other invited guests to flee into the bushes.
Daily Trust quoted one of the guests at the funeral ceremony to have said that the invasion brought the occasion, which took place on Sunday to an abrupt end as everybody scampered for safety.
The source said, “When information got to them (gunmen) that someone brought security men to the town, they mobilized themselves in seven Sienna vehicles and started shooting anyhow. The man who was burying his sister, and the security agents escaped. The men stayed there and shot for a very long time, and all the people who came for the burial ran for their lives, some entered into the bush and others ran into a nearby compound.
“They smashed all the cars in the compound and took some away, after they had set the house ablaze, but thank God, the house was not totally burnt, as people came and quenched the fire when they had left.
Confusion took the centre stage in Ezinifitte, Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra state when gunmen stormed a burial ceremony forging the mourners and other invited guests to flee into the bushes.
Daily Trust quoted one of the guests at the funeral ceremony to have said that the invasion brought the occasion, which took place on Sunday to an abrupt end as everybody scampered for safety.
The source said, “When information got to them (gunmen) that someone brought security men to the town, they mobilized themselves in seven Sienna vehicles and started shooting anyhow. The man who was burying his sister, and the security agents escaped. The men stayed there and shot for a very long time, and all the people who came for the burial ran for their lives, some entered into the bush and others ran into a nearby compound.
“They smashed all the cars in the compound and took some away, after they had set the house ablaze, but thank God, the house was not totally burnt, as people came and quenched the fire when they had left.
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“Many people who escaped into the bush slept there and only came out in the morning. I and many other people ran into a nearby compound, and they brought us out and told us they were not after us, but politicians and those who brought security to the area, and the security men too.
“If you see these people, they were very well armed. I almost thought I had died. I started crying for my mother, just imagining how my corpse would be taken to her. To God be the glory, nobody was killed, and no one was injured.”
Meanwhile, the Anambra State Police Command spokesperson, DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, said he has no information on gunmen invading any community in Anambra state
