Reports from Ebonyi State says a grenade explosion has killed a policeman at Afikpo town, in Afikpo North Local Government Area.
The victim, who was said to be on an assignment from the state capital, Abakiliki, had mistakenly detonated the grenade.
The spokesperson for the Ebonyi State Police Command, LOVETH ODAH, confirmed the incident while briefing newsmen in Enugu.
LOVETH ODAH dismissed claims in a section of the media that there was a suicide bomb explosion in Afikpo.
However; some commentators have raised questions about the police claim that the victim of the explosion in Afikpo was a policeman on duty, and that the cause of the blast that took his life was not a suicide vest.
Those opposed to the police explanation demand to know what a policeman who was not in uniform would be doing with a grenade near a school and a market. Some ask for explanation on why a grenade won on the waist damaged the chest of the victims while his waist is intact.