Two armed robbers were on Wednesday shot dead by the operatives of
the Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Imo State Police Command...
The incident, a correspondent gathered occurred around 2am in Ezi -Ogbaku in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state.
A police source confided in Punch correspondent that the SARS
commander, Victor Godfrey, mobilised his men to the scene of the crime.
Addressing journalists shortly after the bodies of the slain
robbers were taken to the state police headquarters in Owerri, the state
capital, the Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Enwerem, a
Superintendent of Police, said three out of the five-man gang fled with
gunshot injuries.
He said that the armed robbers who were going from house to house
robbing residents in the dead of the night had opened fire on sighting
policemen who responded to a distress call.
The police spokesperson disclosed that in the gun battle, two of the hoodlums were gunned down while the other three escaped.
Enwerem said, “In the early hours of Wednesday, the operatives of
federal Special Anti Robbery Squad of the Imo state police command
received a distress call that armed robbers were operating at Ezi-Ogbaku
in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state.
“The team encountered the armed robbers numbering five who
opened fire on the policemen. The officers responded which led to the
death of two of the hoodlums while three fled with gunshot injuries.”
Enwerem, who explained that the identities of the slain robbers had
yet to be ascertained, said that the state commissioner of police,
Chris Ezike, had directed heads of tactical Unit of the command to
apprehend the fleeing criminals.
One locally made double barrelled gun , two expended cartridges and two live cartridges were recovered from the robbers.
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