By Chikaodi Chukwuleta

Anambra State Commissioner of Police, CP Nnaghe Obono Itam has ordered investigation into the murder of three persons and five others seriously injured  on Monday, at Isionye land, a boundary between Enugu ukwu and Nawfia.

A statement issued by the state’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed that preliminary information, revealed that the victims were lured by some individuals through a phone call to the land in guise of a land transaction and attacked them with guns and matchet.

“Meanwhile, the  CP has sued for calm as police operatives have recovered the abandoned Sennia vehicle used by the murders. Also, the testimonies of the injured victims who are currently receiving treatment in the hospital is aiding the investigation while the bodies of the deceased have been deposited in the morgue.

“Further development shall be communicated, please,” the statement read.