location: Aba
notes: Following rumours that soldiers had killed a number of residents of Umuode and burnt their homes, unidentified youths attacked a Aba police station and set it alight. Police used tear gas against the rioters. Soldiers attacking residents may have been related to tensions related to Biafran secessionists in the area. There were unsubstantiated reports of killings and shootings in different parts of the city; causality numbers not known, coded as 3.
target_text: location: Aba, fatalities: 3