Shooting at Enugu burial: One woman killed, another wounded
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it was further gathered that as the burial ceremony hit up and the suspect tried unslinging his gun it allegedly discharged accidentally and hit one ngozi eze 40 from amanato mburumbu community who was confirmed dead1 the police have commenced investigation into an alleged accidental shooting at an enugu burial ceremony which led to the death of a woman and wounding of the chief mourner on saturday1 amaraizu said the incident occurred at amanato mburumbu community in nkanu east local government area adding that the police recovered a locally-made single barrel gun at the scene of the incident1 amaraizu said the victims were a woman and the chief mourner1 it was gathered that tragedy struck when a man identified as daniel chukwu of amanato mburumbu community stormed the burial ceremony arena with his single barrel locally-made gun and perhaps never knew it was already set for action1 the enugu state police commands spokesman sp ebere amaraizu made this known in a statement on saturday1 the chief mourner identified as one hawaya nworiuzo was also injured hence he was rushed to hospital for medical attention1 the situation shocked sympathisers who scampered for their safety at about 12 noon today he said1 amaraizu said that the suspect was helping the police in their investigation1 he also said the corpse of the dead had been deposited in a nearby mortuary for autopsy. nan1 ksnjce1