The Police Command in Rivers has affirmed the executing of six people during a brutal dissent by irate young people in Chokocho, Etche Local Government Area of the state.
The Command's representative, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, affirmed the killing in an announcement in Port Harcourt on Thursday.
He exposed a few media reports that 15 people were murdered during a supposed savage assault on workers making a trip through Etche people group to Owerri and past.
"The online networking reports included that the furious young people consumed a Police station just as connected troopers and cops in a firearm fight.
"All together not to permit the general population structure a risky supposition, we thusly figured it shrewd and convenient to address this phony news," he expressed.
Omoni said the Command had sent versatile cops subsequent to getting a trouble approach Saturday, December 7 after a blockage of Okomoko-Chokocho Bridge by nonconformists.
He said cops, on landing in the scene, disassembled the blockade and reestablished commonality to the territory.
"From therein, a group drove by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Joseph Anche, recuperated five bodies in a waterway in the territory.
"This disclosure, be that as it may, started off another round of fights, which our men had the option to contain.
"By the day's end, six people were killed, in opposition to the 15 passings detailed; while no Police station was scorched and no worker was assaulted or killed as conjectured," he said.
The Police representative said that regularity had been reestablished to the zone, with the Rivers Commissioner of Police, CP Mustapha Dandaura, propelling a full-scale examination concerning the episode.
He included that the examination would empower the Police to decide the conditions encompassing the killings just as disentangle the characters of the culprits of the wrongdoing.
"Along these lines, CP Dandaura is speaking to occupants of Etche to stay cool and trust in the capacity of the Command to ensure their lives and properties," he said.
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