NO fewer than five persons, including a woman, were wounded while seven vehicles were at the weekend burnt when some suspected armed robbers invaded Okpokuegbe Umezoka community in Ezza area of Ebonyi State.
The victims, who suffered gunshot wounds and matchete cuts, are now lying critically ill at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abakaliki.
Eyewitness accounts said the hoodlums broke into the house of a renowned trader in wholesale foodstuff wholesale, who just returned from her trip outside the village, searching for the money she realised from her trade.
The villagers told The Guardian that the seven young men wielding guns, matchetes and axes, drove into the woman’s compound while some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) faithful were addressing a rally.
“We thought they were cultists searching for their rivals, but when they broke into the house of the woman, who deals in storage and wholesale of foodstuff, we suspected they were robbers. When some people moved closer to the house where they were turning everything upside down, they started shooting,” they narrated.
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Five wounded in Ebonyi robbery