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.
Commissioner of Police Garba Aliyu who confirmed the incident in a telephone interview with some journalists, said that 10 other police officers sustained injuries.
“Yes, I am in the hospital now, we lost three officers while 10 others are under intensive care in the hospital,“ he said.
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 policemen were deployed to quell tension after a leadership tussle among members of the National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW) in two communities degenerated into a communal crisis.
