Unknown gunmen assassinated and burned the remains of two US embassy employees in Nigeria today, May 16, in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The US consulate personnel were performing humanitarian work in the area when they were ambushed by the terrorists, who also killed two Police Mobile Force operatives.
DSP Tochukwu Ikenga, the state police command’s spokesperson, verified this in a statement.
The statement reads;
“The Joint Security Forces have embarked on a rescue/recovery operation in Ogbaru LGA, following an attack on a convoy of staff of US Consulate today 16/5/2023 by 3:30 pm along Atani, Osamale road. The hoodlums merdered two of the PMF operatives, and two staff of the Consulate, and set their bodies ablaze and their vehicles.
Also, the arsonist/ murderers on sighting the responding joint security forces abducted two Police operatives, the driver of the second vehicle and took to their heels. No US citizen was in the convoy
The Command, while reacting to the situation regrets that a convoy of such or any related will enter the state without recourse to the police in the area or any security agency, assured that the battle against the insurgents in the State is focused and it will remain sustained until such a time security stability is fully restored.”