Pregnant lady, 14 others harmed as armed force, police conflict

No less than 15 persons on Friday evening allegedly supported different level of wounds amid a conflict between men of the Nigerian Army and cops from the Oba Market Police Station in Benin, the Edo State capital. A pregnant lady was additionally said to be among the harmed in the conflict, which constrained a few occupants and shops proprietors to hasten for wellbeing as the security agents discharged a few shots and nerve gas amid the contention.

Numerous occupants were said to have been harmed in the rush that took after the occurrence.

The inconvenience purportedly began when 10 policemen supposedly beat up two warriors to trance at Ibiwe intersection at the downtown area.

A few onlookers said that the activity of the policemen took after the claimed ambush of a female movement superintendent for professedly keeping the fighters from driving through a substantial movement.

One of the officers was said to have over and over slapped the lady until some policemen mediated, bringing about a free-for-all.

An officer was said to have been kept as an aftereffect of the episode, a circumstance which allegedly drove a few fighters, in more than 7 watch vans, to attack the police headquarters, driving the policemen in the station to bolt themselves inside the station while entrepreneurs bolted their shops to avert plundering.

The fighters were said to have laid a two hour attack at the police headquarters, which kept going till around 6:20pm, after the intercession of senior cops in the state.

At the point when reached, the representative for the Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade, Captain Jonah Unuakhalu, told Punch that the order was not included in the conflict, including that the issue had been determined with the divisional cop of the station.