Two people are missing and three others were injured in an attack on a convoy in Ebonyi State's Effium Community, Ohaukwu Local Government Area, on Sunday.
The officers were attacked with Chinedu Awo, an Ebonyi legislator who represents the Ohaukwu North State Constituency in the Ebonyi House of Assembly.
The three injured policemen were airlifted to Abakaliki's Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital, where they are undergoing treatment.
According to a source, two of the police successfully underwent surgery, while a senior officer who headed the squad and was wounded in the leg requested discharge.
Mr Awo, the legislator, is stated to be stable following medical treatment.
According to reports, the convoy was assaulted on its way back from Effium, where they had gone in pursuit of a kidnapped consultant working on the Ebonyi Ring Road project.
Three weeks ago, the consultant was abducted along with four others.
According to reports, the politician led the squad in confirming an allegation that the abducted construction workers had been murdered and buried.
Effium has been embroiled in an intracommunal conflict that has resulted in the loss of multiple lives.
Gunmen are believed to have killed around 17 persons in the region in an attack on locals a few weeks ago.
Loveth Odah, the Ebonyi police spokesperson who verified the attack on the convoy, claimed the convoy was attacked "by around 60 gunmen" in a woodland region.
She stated that the two police officers were unaccounted for. Donatus Osugwu and Thaddeus Ugoeze were their given names; both were sergeants.
She stated that the congressman was on a mission to mediate peace between the feuding factions.
"The Ebonyi Commissioner of Police, Aliyu Garba, led a team of police operatives to the region where the event occurred; they roped off the forest and searched the hamlet but were unable to locate the missing policemen or assailants," a police spokesperson said.
"Efforts are intensifying to apprehend and apprehend the criminals," she continued.
