Port Harcourt (Nigeria) (AFP) - Gunfire at an opposition election rally in southern Nigeria's Rivers state on Tuesday killed one police officer and injured four others, while a reporter covering the event was stabbed, a candidate for governor said.
"Five police officers were shot. One of them is dead and four are lying in critical condition at this hospital," said Dakuku Peterside of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who had planned to address the rally in the town of Okrika.
Peterside and a source at the private Channels television network said its reporter at the scene, Charles Erukaa, was stabbed and was being taken to a hospital.
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