Gunmen Attack Correctional Facility, Kill Officer, Injure Mother, Daughter In Cross River

Calabar, Cross River State – Gunmen suspected to be militants have attacked the Afokang Correctional Facility in Calabar, Cross River State on Wednesday night, October 18.

According to reports from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that a mother and her six-year-old daughter were hit by stray bullets during the attack.

The victims who were rushed to Naval Hospital in Calabar, were hit in the stomach and hand respectively.

While addressing the press in Calabar on a Thursday, Affanga Etim, the spokesperson for the State Command of the Correctional Service, clarified that the claims of the attack targeting the Correctional facility was not true.

Etim noted that the gunmen only opened fire on the Joint security team at the facility and that there was no damage to the facility.

“When they came, they opened fire on the security team who also responded in like manner and in the process, an Assistant Superintendent of Correction, ASC, was killed,” he said.

“No inmate escaped or was killed, the attackers didn’t get close to the main facility.

“As we speak, we have deployed more armed personnel to the facility and everything is under control.”

Meanwhile, according to Felix Orok, one Richee Polycarp was killed in the attack.