Delta Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa
By Our Reporter
Palpable fear has gripped the residents of Asaba and Warri, Delta State as armed thugs set ablaze a police station in Asaba, the state capital, on Thursday. The hoodlums also invaded the Warri Correctional Centre (Okere Prison) in the Warri South Local Government Area of the state, shooting sporadically and setting free some inmates at the facility.
NATIONAL WAVES gathered that the thugs numbering over 100 stormed the police station at Akwuofo, Asaba, at about 1:00pm on Thursday and set the entire building on fire.
They moved to the police Special Protection Unit in the area in an attempt to set it ablaze but were repelled by security personnel there.
As at the time of filling this report, banks and business premises had been shut down in the area for fear of being attacked by the thugs.
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