1 burnt to death when a gun shot from Civil Defence officer sent a commercial bus into ditch in Enugu.

One person has been burnt to death as officials of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence, NSCDC, allegedly shoots a commercial bus which summersaulted into a ditch at Miliki Hill, Enugu.

The incident occurred around ten o’clock in the morning today.

According to eye witnesses, Some Civil Defence personel pursued the driver of the bus as he tried to evade arrest after he parked wrongly at Odegba, New Market Enugu.

The eyewitnesses were not certain about the number of  survivors of the incident.

A police personnel, who pleaded anonymity said they apprehended one of the Civil Defence operatives .

Efforts by Radio Nigeria to confirm the arrest from the Police public Relations Officer, Enugu State command was unsuccessful as he was not in office when visited.

However in an interview the public Relations Officer NSCDC, Enugu  State Command, Mr Danny Manuel Iwuchkwu said details of the incident were still sketchy.

The NSCDC spokesperson also confirmed that an officer of the command was still in detention after shooting a woman in the leg last week.