According to local police and US officials, a US convoy was ambushed in Nigeria on Tuesday, killing four persons, including two US embassy employees and two police officers, and kidnapping three more.

Anambra Police Command told CNN that the assailants "murdered two police operatives and two staff of the US consulate and set their bodies and their vehicles ablaze." The crime took place in the southeast Anambra state.


According to the White House and the local authorities, the murdered troops were not US citizens. According to John Kirby of the US National Security Council, "No US citizens were involved and as a result, no US citizens were hurt." "We are aware of a few injuries, possibly even a few fatalities."

Ikenga Tochukwu, deputy superintendent of police, stated that when the attackers spotted security personnel, "they made off with two police officers and a driver of the second vehicle in the convoy." "No US citizen was in the convoy," he continued.

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The 'reported arrest' of a former Russian employee is condemned by the US State Department, according to the police, who added that "a rescue and recovery operation has been launched in the area."

Tuesday, a representative for the State Department stated that "Mission Nigeria personnel are working with Nigerian security services to investigate."