Men of the Benue State Police Command, at the weekend gunned down two
robbery suspects who specialized in robbing unsuspecting commercial
bank customers in and around Makurdi town.
An eyewitness saids the suspects had last
Friday at 1:45pm trailed two brothers (names withheld) to a commercial
bank at the Makurdi Modern Market were they shot their victims and
snatch the money they just withdrew from the bank.
According to the witness”we had the gun shots near the bank, and
there was a sudden stampede in the market because nobody knew what was
actually happening.
“It was when we started hearing the loud shout of thief, thief that
traders started calling the police and in no time men of the Special
Robbery Squad stormed the scene and a gun dwell ensued between the
robbers and the police.
“At that point, the entire market just looked like a war zone; but
when it was becoming obvious that the police had a superior fire power
the robbers took to their heels after two of them had been shot and
seriously wounded,” he said.
Vanguard further gathered that the people had joined the police in
chasing after the fleeing robbers, some of whom escaped into nearby
bushes with bullet wounds.
Corroborating the story, the Benue State Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, Deputy Suprintendent of Police, DSP, Daniel Ezeala
disclosed that the injured victims of the robbery attack were
recuperating in hospital while the two robbery suspects died before
medical attention could reach them.
Ezeala further disclosed that the police recovered one Barreta
pistol, live ammunitions and a Suzuki from the suspects adding that the
command had commenced a man hunt for the fleeing robbers.
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