Police mourn 3 colleagues killed in robbery operation

The Ekiti State police command has expressed sadness over the death of three officers during a bank robbery that took place at Ijero Ekiti, Ekiti State, just as the command said it has recovered a vehicle reportedly stolen by bandits during the robbery. In the bloody operation on an old generation bank at about 6pm […]

The Ekiti State police command has expressed sadness over the death of three officers during a bank robbery that took place at Ijero Ekiti, Ekiti State, just as the command said it has recovered a vehicle reportedly stolen by bandits during the robbery.

In the bloody operation on an old generation bank at about 6pm on Monday, the robbers killed three policemen and a civilian.

It was gathered that the robbers, who blew the security door with explosive materials, came to the bank with an ambulance in which was a coffin carrying a large cache of rifles.

They were said to have killed the policemen at the nearby police station and within the premises of the bank.

The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Caleb Ikechukwu, told journalists in Ado Ekiti yesterday that the families of the deceased would be contacted before their identities were publicly revealed.

Ikechukwu said, “We have even recovered the Toyota car that was stolen by the bandits during the robbery. The bandits had abandoned the vehicle along Aramoko-Ijero road and fled into the bush upon realizing that the police were closing in on them.

“We are not stopping at that. Our men from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) are combing the bush we suspected they ran into. We are chasing them and the long arm of the law shall catch up with them.”