ONITSHA, Nigeria
Armed attackers killed six people at a police station in southern Nigeria, a police spokesman said on Sunday, bringing the total number of officers killed over the weekend to 12 amid escalating violence nationwide.
The attack early on Saturday morning in Akwa Ibom state
killed five officers and one of their wives, spokesman Odiko Mcdon told
Reuters.
The killings followed three attacks on Friday night in the
southern oil hub of Rivers state where seven officers were killed.
Rivers is the home to Port Harcourt, the gateway to the
oil-rich Delta region - while Akwa Ibom state is also oil producing.
Rising violence across Nigeria, Africa’s most populous
nation and its biggest economy, has alarmed residents and observers. Parliament
last week called for a comprehensive response to mounting insecurity and the
lower house urged President Muhammadu Buhari to declare a state of emergency.
Since December, bandits have kidnapped more than 700 people
from schools in the northwest, Islamist militants have killed scores of
soldiers and civilians in the northeast and kidnapping and crime have increased
nationwide.
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