Three police officers with the Ebonyi State Police Command were killed on Wednesday in a road accident at the Isieke Junction on Abakaliki-Enugu Expressway.
The State Commissioner of Police, Garba Aliyu, who confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with some journalists, said 10 other police officers sustained injuries.
Aliyu said: “Yes, I am in the hospital now.
“We lost three officers, while 10 others are under intensive care in the hospital.”
According to Garba, the accident happened while the officers were returning from a “peace-keeping-mission” after a communal crisis in Ezza-Effium, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that a leadership tussle among members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the two communities degenerated into a communal crisis.
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