There was panic in Awka, the Anambra State capital when gunmen suspected to be cultists stormed some villages in the town and gunned down three persons on Wednesday night.
The gunmen who were said to have released some gunshots in the air while their operations lasted, moved unchallenged through the outskirts of Umubele to Umukwa near Eke-Awka, spreading fear and sorrow as they went.
One of the victims, whose name was simply given by a source as Chief Ezeoke, it was gathered, was shot in the outskirts of Umubele village. The man who hails from Umuike village, Agulu Awka, was said to have headed the vigilante unit of Awka town while alive.
Two other victims, whose identities could not be immediately ascertained, Daily Sun gathered, were killed in different locations in the state capital.
It was not clear what led to these latest killings as all efforts to get clarifications from the Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Haruna Mohammed, proved abortive.
He neither picked nor returned calls put to his mobile phone and never returned same as at the time of filing this report.
It also remains uncertain if the perpetrators of this dastardly act would be fished out as the mobile CCTV camera which the state government claims to have mounted in strategic locations in the state, can only be found in one location in Awka – the popular UNIZIK Junction.