There was confusion at the popular Bata Junction linking the Aba main motor park with Ogbor-Hill and Umungasi on Thursday as a policeman shot and killed his colleague in an attempt to arrest a civilian.
Eyewitnesses said the police officer was trying to shoot a civilian who was resisting arrest but mistakenly shot his colleague.
The civilian was a man the officers tried to arrest for driving a tinted glass SUV.
He had refused the forceful demand by the officers to drag him into their patrol van.
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According to the witnesses, the police team, after the gunshot hit their fellow officer on the chest, left the man they were trying to drag into their vehicle and began attending to their bleeding colleague.
On the process, they said, the civilian drove towards Sweet Fast Food in the area and zoomed off.
The officers later carried their shot colleague who died instantly and left
SP Geoffrey Ogbonna, the public relations officer of the Abia State police command said that he was yet to be informed of the incident when contacted.
