Several persons including policemen were killed during a bank robbery at Igarra, headquarters of Akoko-Edo local government area of Edo State, on Wednesday.
A security guard at the bank was killed at the operation which eyewitnesses said lasted one hour.
The robbery operation was said to have begun at about 6:00am shortly after the state’s Police Commissioner, Chris Ezike, left Auchi which is about 30 minutes drive from Igarra.
An eyewitness told our correspondent on phone that the robbers killed a guard and started shooting people after ransacking the bank and attacking policemen at the police station.
He said many persons are receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in the area.
Another witness said the robbers were heavily armed and engaged the police in a shoot-out.
The Nation gathered that policemen who took cover in the bush came out when an armoured personnel carrier was brought to the robbery scene.
Local vigilante groups reportedly joined in the shoot-out and blocked all routes to Igarra town which made the robbers to abandon the vehicles used for the operation.
When contacted, Edo Police spokesman, Stanley Osifo, said he was on his way to the crime scene alongside the police commissioner. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Old oshomole will blame Goodluck Jonathan for taking all the police in Edo state to visit buhari at the villa....
ReplyDeleteOshomole abandon Igarra, he did not do anything in that Local government particularly, the road from Benin to Ekpoma and Igarra is an eye saw, the only thing he knows is to be blowing big big grammar here and there, he concentrated on some part and left some, i wonder the kind of government we have in this country? when they are suppose to be there for the masses but they know how to campaign with lie lie promises that can never come to fulfilment till thy kindgom come. It is only God that saved my brother from this incident.
ReplyDeleteThe only problem Oshomole have is Goodluck Jonathan going about condeming a man who has left a remark for the whole world instead of him to face his work.
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