No fewer than eight persons have been feared killed when gunmen and security operatives clash in Anambra State.
The incident, The Nation gathered, occurred on Monday at Orsumoghu, Lilu and Azia section in Ihiala local government area.
It was learnt one of the prominent men in Nnewi, was also killed on Sunday on his way to Ukpor in Nnewi South from Onitsha.
The gunbattle between security operatives and the gunmen, suspected to be members of the Eastern Security Network ESN of the Indigenous people of Biafra (IPOB), had been on since weekend.
The Nation further gathered out of the number feared killed, four were Policemen, one a soldier and three gunmen.
Many others, according to sources, were injured during the gun battle.
