THREE police escorts in the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South senatorial zone were feared dead when he was attacked at Enugwu Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of the state on Sunday.<\/p>\n
An eye witness said the senator was reportedly injured in the attack in which some people described as an assassination attempt on the Young Peoples Party, YPP, senator.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness said: \u201cIfeanyi Ubah\u2019s convoy came under attack in Enugwu Ukwu this evening. He was ambushed by heavily armed men who opened fire on his convoy. Some of his aides were killed, including some police officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe senator managed to escape as his car was riddled with bullets.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was driving up to that spot from the link road to the express when some people in a shop shouted at me and asked me to turn back and take another road, which I did\u201d.<\/p>\n
The state police command is yet to react on the attack.<\/p>\n
\u25aa\ufe0e Report by Vanguard<\/strong><\/p>\n + Editor’s Note<\/strong>: Please note that we have withheld the re-broadcast of video circulating on social media because of its gory nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THREE police escorts in the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South senatorial zone were feared dead when he was attacked at Enugwu Ukwu in Njikoka local government area of the state on Sunday. An eye witness said the senator was reportedly injured in the attack in which some people described as an assassination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[1753,5099,798],"class_list":["post-59725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-dead","tag-injuries","tag-ubah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}