Suspected armed robbers have reportedly shot and killed a police officer, Inspector Mohammed Hameed, in Benin, Edo state. The incident occurred on Wednesday night, along the ever busy Lagos Street.
It was
gathered that a police patrol team had received a distress call that some
suspected armed robbers snatched a car around the Ring Road.
Swiftly, the
team responded and gave the hoodlums a hot chase towards Lagos Street, a short
distance from the city center.
In the course
of the chase, the hoodlums allegedly began shooting at the patrol van and
Inspector Hameed was hit by one of their bullets.
The deceased
who led the patrol team was said to have died at the spot.
Not deterred,
the other operatives engaged the armed robbery suspects in a gun duel and also
killed one of them.
The State
Command’s Spokesman, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, could not be reached on his mobile
phone for comment.
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